“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.” IfsWayMindWellsPlayHandsStreetsChildhoodExampleBearsBeatsBaseballPolicePrisonDictatorshipAdolescenceRepression Author:Daniel Ortega
“Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.” IfsChildrenCharacterFeltSupportDoubtStreetsChildhoodCoupleSpringTownsOur FamilyNo DoubtFlawsJerseyPaymentNew JerseyLove Of MoneyCharacter FlawsI Love Money Author:Michael Ian Black
“My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.” WorldDifferentWholeFeltReligiousSawsStreetsChildhoodGardenContradictionDifferent Worlds Author:Rula Jebreal
“I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.” ThinkingReadingLaughingStreetsChildhoodTaughtDadConcernedRadioInterviewsWeekendMumTruckLove Of ReadingRad Author:Brooke Fraser
“I don't remember my childhood very well at all, but my earliest memory is holding a man's hand as I was walking down the street at about 1ВЅ. I can still remember the shoes I was wearing, but I don't know who the man was or what the memory relates to.” KnowsMenWellsStillsI CanHandsRememberMemoriesStreetsChildhoodHe ManWalkingShoesRelate Author:Naomie Harris
“Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.” YearsAgeHouseLeftMy OwnStreetsChildhoodTeenageTeenage Years Author:Nipsey Hussle
“I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.” SchoolSawsStreetsChildhoodBrotherPlentyMy BrotherAfghanistanCousinOld SchoolNeighbourhoods Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.” RealFeelingsKidsRememberFeltSeeingStreetsChildhoodMy FriendsVersionsSmokeFedsSwearCigaretteSpoonsRefreshingSesame StreetStand By Me Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.” KnowsYearsLittlesDoneWould BeValuesCitiesWonderMorningTakenStreetsChildhoodWindColdSummerWarmFoolishTouchedMore TimeSummer DaysTime Goes ByYear OneCity Streets Book:The Haunting of Hill House Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.” PeopleYearsTwoSometimesStoriesFeelingsHalfStreetsChildhoodRapMagazinesBrandsRapperFar AwayBurnedOld PeopleThirteenWartimeMagazine CoversThirteen Year Olds Author:Jay-Z
“My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.” StreetsChildhoodHighwaysDefine YouFreeways Author:Steven Morrissey
“I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky. . . . Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars.” Has BeensSoulMightWantedFoundStarsBornAnswersViewsCuttingSkyStreetsChildhoodWindBirthHigherCircumstancesRootsDeterminedFlyingFlightMy SoulAviationMight Have BeenFifthAvenuesMysticMazesGreat AviationElementalsSawdustFifth AvenueRockefeller Center Author:Jacqueline Cochran