Best childhood & running Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.”

Men Running Roles Cutting Wife Childhood Female Convinced Adolescence Subordinates

Book:In praise of imperfection: my life and work

Source: In praise of imperfection: my life and work

“There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.”

Way Littles Long I Can Moments Light Running Lasts Remember Film Rooms Childhood Wall Details Smell Wander Landscape Long Ago Hung Scrap

Book:Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

Source: Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

“According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.”

Running Chance Space Careers Five Childhood Achieve Ambition British Your Children Princess Cowboy Polls Rangers

Author:Jay Leno

“It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.”

Want Made Hard Running Film Dies Actors Fantasy Childhood Thieves Obscure Midnight Bicycle

Author:Ben Affleck

“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”

Years Running Kids Fall House Water Poor Childhood Garden Hot Our Children Raised Humble Meat Milk Cows Hog Hot Water Bathtubs Running Water

Author:Phil Robertson

“One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.”

Knows Men Want Writing Humans Littles Has Beens Running Faces Religion Names Women Path Modern Childhood Adventure Fame Ancient Currents Phases Obliged Continuity Modern Woman

Author:Mary Antin

“I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.”

People Country Humor Running Kids Funny Games Doors Childhood Rounds Fantastic Running Away Foxes Knocking Badgers

Author:Bill Bailey

“Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.”

World Long Book Running Memories Simple Childhood Hero Brave Simplicity Complicated Telling The Truth Long Runs Defeated Contradictory Disappointing Swordsman

Author:Graham Greene

“Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to change a deeply ingrained pattern, you have to build a sturdy dam, dig another canal and reroute the river in the new direction. That effort is rarely successful over the long haul.”

Long Running Order Difficult Effort Successful Cutting Childhood Behavior Rivers Patterns Haul Dams Early Childhood Canals Sturdy New Directions Long Haul

Book:Life on the Edge

Source: Life on the Edge

“That's what actually caused me to run for office is, you know, my family story, the experience of growing up in a family where your dad had been imprisoned, had been tortured, and came to America with nothing, washing dishes for 50 cents an hour. That was perhaps the most formative experience of my childhood, is being raised in that household where freedom had an urgency.”

Knows Stories Running America Hours Growing Up Growing Childhood Dad Office My Family Raised Cents Household Dishes Washing Urgency Your Dad Washing Dishes

Author:Ted Cruz

“I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually do fight evil in this world. And what am I doing? I bang on some drums in a rock band. I try to tell myself that by doing that, I'm fighting evil - which is completely absurd. Music is not equipped in any way to fight against anything. Other than, I guess, it could fight against silence.”

World Trying Running Fighting Evil Silence Childhood Music Is Absurd Fighting Evil

Author:Greg Saunier

“I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.”

Running Wanted Childhood Running Free

Author:Taylor Swift

“For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me.”

Want Looks Children Has Beens Important Running School Remember My Own Childhood Kitchen Bus Lunch

Author:Kate Winslet

“And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.”

Ifs Has Beens Running Wish Childhood Horse

Book:Acheron

Source: Acheron

“This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.”

“So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender.”

Ifs Children Littles Stills Bigs Care Running Left Differences Poor Alive Childhood Adults Skins Leaving Don't Care Knees Going Away Burned Humiliation Morbid

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness”

Looks War Light Running Behinds Darkness Childhood Color Shadow Teeth Cycles Light And Darkness Lemons

Author:Suheir Hammad

“There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.”

World Firsts Feelings Running Water Childhood Cold Capable Sacred Fingers Deeper Reaching Touching Tides Shells Ankles Shoreline

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.”

Men Firsts Play Running Age Lasts Steps Childhood Son Ready Aging Active Rhythm Old Man Retired Irresponsibility Grandson Firsts And Lasts Active Life

Author:Andre Maurois

“Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.”

Running Romance Comedy Childhood Keys Grew Grew Up Faster Controlled Adulthood My Future Cheated I Cheated

Author:Margaret Cho

“But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.”

Running Childhood Alcohol Demon

Author:David Gest

“Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion. Religions run in families. If we'd been brought up in ancient Greece we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Vikings we would be worshiping Wotan and Thor. How does this come about ? Through childhood indoctrination.”

Ifs Doe Happens Would Be Running Religion Parent Born Childhood Ancient Remarkable Coincidence Greece Apollo Indoctrination Vikings Zeus Ancient Greece

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.”

Source: Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione

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