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“I grew up on the sets of Bonanza and most of my (childhood) memory is (on the set of) Little House. I was actually an assistant cameraman on Highway to Heaven. So, I observed my father working for many years. He was a very giving person. I really respected the way he ran his sets. He never treated anyone differently - whether you were the guest star of the show or the grip. Everybody was treated with respect.”

Way Giving Years Littles Persons Shows Father House Heaven Stars Memories Childhood Grew Grew Up Treated Ran Guests Highways Assistants Childhood Memories Cameraman Guest Stars

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can't keep that. You can't have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you're not an honorable person and if you're not a respectful person. And that's exactly what I am.”

People Ifs Years Kind Persons Five Childhood My Friends Five Years Honorable Lifelong Respectful Five Year Olds Lifelong Friends Childhood Friend

Author:Tony Vlachos

“I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.”

Thinking Writing Years Looks Children Book Written Childhood Adults Eight Publishers Writing A Book Nostalgic Children's Books

Author:Jeff Kinney

“Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.”

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.”

Years Childhood Soil Early Childhood

Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.”

Ifs Knows Feels Years Home Asks Childhood Abuse Domestic Abuse Incidence

Author:Gloria Steinem

“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”

“My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.”

Years Used Girl Rooms Acting Half Attitude Roles Childhood Eight Ambitious Auditions Standing Out Realised Theatrical My Attitude

Author:Jessie J

“In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.”

Years Next Childhood

Author:Bill Gates

“Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.”

Way Years Lasts Easy Hours Five Childhood Forty Reverse Easy Way

Author:Pico Iyer

“I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.”

“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.”

“Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and not violence, love and not hate, cooperation and not murder, justice and not selfishness, we have to learn how to make childhood more happy. No nobler task could be pursued by our generation.”

Ifs World Want Years Hate Justice Violence Generations Childhood Anxiety Tasks Murder Selfishness Cooperation Hostility Pursued Nursery Our Generation Competitiveness

Author:Joshua L. Liebman

“I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years. A lot of people say I'm an overnight success, but it's an overnight success that's been twelve years in the making.”

People Trying Years Has Beens Past Parent My Own Childhood England Blessed Moved Twelve Music Business Overnight Success Great Parents

Author:Bo Bice

“Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?”

People Years Enough Past Childhood Couple Thousand Letters Raised Trauma Violent Mail Alcoholics

Author:Dean Koontz

“When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years.”

Years Real Felt Childhood Cold Mouths Metals Braces Real Women

Author:Christy Carlson Romano

“One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.”

Thinking Writing Years Reason Problem Difficult Childhood Teenage Teenage Years Difficult Childhood

Author:Meg Cabot

“We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.”

Years Children Said Kids Three Natural Differences My Own Childhood Mom Dad Limits Six Daughter Concepts Adopted Sibling Loving You Foster Children Mom And Dad My Siblings Courtney Dad Love

Author:Al Roker

“Love can make the difference-love generously given in childhood and reaching through the awkward years of youth . . . and encouragement that is quick to compliment and slow to criticize.”

Years Given Differences Childhood Youth Encouragement Reaching Criticize Compliment Awkward

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?”

People Thinking Feels Trying Years Children Persons Sometimes Seems Certain Happened Childhood Strange Stranger Aliens Alienation Decipher

Author:Gunter Grass

“There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.”

Years Remember Forget Childhood

Author:Robert Bly

“It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.”

Years Firsts Book Bigs Father Games House Difficult White Interesting Childhood Goes On Honor Letters Redemption White House Hunting Publishing Publish First Lady Eleanor Reconnecting

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“During my childhood years in a Catholic school, one teacher who was more nuts than the rest told me I'd fry in hell if I were a lesbian so I thought maybe the best idea was to be straight.”

Ifs Years Ideas School Hell Teacher Childhood Catholic Being The Best Nuts Catholic School

Author:Olof Arnalds

“I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.”

People Thinking Years Wells Children Bigs Lasts Three House Left Born My Own Four Childhood Quiet Died Our Children Nostalgia Echoes Happy Family

Author:Guy Maddin

“For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.”

Writing Years Long Dream Opportunity Realizing Fiction Childhood Crime Long Time Trials Working It Crime Fiction Courtroom Childhood Dreams

Author:Marcia Clark

“My best friend, Andrew Goldberg - and this is genuinely not me trying to cross-promote, but this new Netflix show I'm doing called Big Mouth is about me and my best friend, Andrew Goldberg, from childhood - but there was a year when I went to his house after school every day and we watched Wayne's World and ate Doritos.”

World Trying Years Shows Bigs School House Childhood Mouths Crosses My Best Friend Wayne Andrew After School Netflix Doritos

Author:Nick Kroll

“I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this.”

People Thinking Years Shows Hands Suffering Parent Violence Childhood Masters Tvs Abuse Seeds Magazines Stem Tv Shows Puberty Sadistic Arousal Formative Years

Author:Park Dietz

“My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.”

Years Self Childhood Self Esteem Serious Overcoming Abuse Decades Esteem Bullying Take Me Crushed Through The Years

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I was more intrigued by the relationship [in Felicity]; the idea of these two teenagers who were placed together. What would that be like, and what would it be like to watch that unravel. Living together, and having babies with somebody, missing out on your whole childhood, and then spending all these years with someone. I was more intrigued by that.”

Years Two Ideas Whole Together Watches Childhood Missing Baby Spending Teenager Intrigued Felicity Having A Baby Living Together Missing Out

Author:Keri Russell

“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.”

Years Ends Happened Childhood Painting Type Conscious Patterns Mechanism Copying Yale

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“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.”

Years Age House Left My Own Streets Childhood Teenage Teenage Years

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks and comments from those around me on how remote my life was from my age. Therefore I rapidly lost all my respect for age. From then on, I always lived without any age, given that every year I used to repudiate it, choosing another one for the sole good reason that I liked it better.”

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Author:Domenico Gnoli

“[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years, even in past relationships, that I'm still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I'm still growing and becoming.”

“Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.”

Years Cutting Progress Childhood Global Health

Author:Bill Gates

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

Years Children Real Sound Five Childhood Humorous Parenting Five Years Menace Five Year Olds Funny Parent

Book:Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies

“My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.”

Years Felt Childhood Eight Endless

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.”

Years Childhood Twenties Adolescence Twenty One

Book:Conversations with Ian McEwan

Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan

“All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.”

Years Different Views Childhood Size Pursuit Fatherhood Manhood Trifles

Book:Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.”

Thinking Years Humans Looks Felt Race Five Four Childhood Planets Members Comfortable My Family Aliens Human Race Five Years Tall Skinny Disconnected Five Year Olds

Author:Patti Smith

“I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.”

Source: Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion

“At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.”

Years Care Mother Father Chance My Own Boys Childhood Son Needed Moved My Son Looking Back Better Life Similarity My Boys

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.”

People Knows Years Mind Wells Two Remember Half Childhood Two Years Recollection Two Year Olds Daguerreotypes

Author:Orson Welles

“I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.”

World Feels Years Children Long States Grows Waiting Growing Up Childhood Lucky Summer Actresses Get Back Ireland

Author:Olivia Wilde

“Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.”

Years Childhood Stage Mines Eight Awkward Fatherhood

Author:Tina Yothers

“I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.”

Years Wanted Childhood Serious Draws Former Comic Nerd Collectors

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.”

Men Way Years Age Peace Growth Tree Childhood Standing Relation Giants Encounters Standing There Separate Peace Demotion

Book:A Separate Peace

Source: A Separate Peace

“I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.”

Giving Years Children Littles Wealth Results Childhood Summer Decay Childhood Memories Summer Days

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: And, Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: And, Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There

“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.”

“Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.”

Years Humans Moments Age Lasts Desire Night Passion Born Human Beings Silence Childhood Listening Old Age Uncertain Lifelong Momentary Flux

Author:C. S. Lewis

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