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I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.
We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.
The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an easy thing in those days.
I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.
You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.
From earliest childhood, I have rejoiced over the Santa Ana winds. I know those winds the way the Eskimos know their snows.
I grew up in New York, so I grew up reading the Sunday Times. It's always something I've been aware of, since my childhood.
I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.
Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but loving, and I was together with my sisters, who were my best friends.
My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.
The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential
I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
One of the blessings of my childhood was being a fighter and a scrapper, but being a fighter and a scrapper is a curse, too.
Mum eventually graduated with a City & Guilds certificate that hung proudly on our living room wall throughout my childhood.
my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.
Since childhood, I have always rooted for the villains. I would wish the villain beat the hero and get away with everything.
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.
. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.
As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
Taffarel was also outstanding when Galatasaray won the UEFA Cup in 2000. I watched the games of 'Gala' a lot in my childhood.
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.
Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.
And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.
Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.