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"My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age."
"I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age."
"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us."
"... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?"
"After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world."
"I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears."
"Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately."
"There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know."
"In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health."
"Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic."
"If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important."
"I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world."
"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."
"I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm."
"Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas."
"the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful."
"Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves."
"The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing."
"In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in."
"I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them."
