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Right outside of Kansas City is Leavenworth, and there are, like, five prisons there. It was kind of the tapestry of my childhood. I was always fascinated. I wanted to know what was behind those walls.

Quotes by Eric Stonestreet

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Quotes by Emmanuel Jal

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.

Quotes by Emma McLaughlin

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Most of my good friends are my friends from high school or childhood, and they're not actors - they have 9-to-5 jobs. But I've obviously, over time, developed friendships with actors. It's two completely different worlds.

Quotes by Emily Meade

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

Quotes by Emily Mortimer

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Quotes by Emily Ratajkowski

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.

Quotes by Emil Zatopek

I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood.

Quotes by Emilia Fox

In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.

Quotes by Elyn Saks

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

Quotes by Ellen Gilchrist

There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough.

Quotes by Ellen Greene

In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.

Quotes by Ellen Key

When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.

Quotes by Elizabeth Rodriguez

I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.

Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.

Quotes by Elif Batuman

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

Quotes by Elif Safak

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

Quotes by Elijah Cummings

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

Quotes by Elena Roger

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Quotes by Eleanor Porter

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

Quotes by Edward Hoagland

I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'

Quotes by Edward Carey

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

Quotes by Edvard Munch

I had an extraordinary childhood.

Quotes by Edward Albert

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

To be honest, I don't feel like I am able to say that I had a childhood, not in a way normal kids my age had. I had something that was specific to Bosnia in '90s, something I call a period of survival.

Quotes by Edin Dzeko

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

Quotes by Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

Quotes by Ed Helms

I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.

Quotes by Ed Kowalczyk

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

Quotes by Ed Begley, Jr.

I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

Quotes by Eavan Boland

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

Quotes by Dylan Thomas

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Quotes by E. B. White

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.

Quotes by Dwyane Wade

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

Quotes by Dylan Lauren

If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!

Quotes by Dylan Lauren

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

Quotes by Dwayne Hickman

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

Quotes by Dries van Noten

I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.

Quotes by Drew Bledsoe

I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it.

Quotes by Drew Gilpin Faust

He was one of my childhood idols, and I hope I can get in the ring with him one day. I'd love to batter The Rock.

Quotes by Drew McIntyre

I've gone from a kid who was sneaking out of my childhood house and lying to my parents to do shows in a community theatre in Reading, PA, to now having two shows on Broadway opening within two months of each other. That's sort of crazy, that trajectory.

Quotes by Douglas Carter Beane

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

Quotes by Dorothy Allison

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.

Quotes by Doris Lessing

All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

Quotes by Donnie Yen

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

Quotes by Donovan McNabb

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Quotes by Donna Brazile

When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.

Quotes by Donna Langley

I don't remember much of my childhood. My father passed away when I was six, and sadly, I don't have the fuzziest, foggiest memory of him - what his voice was like, anything he ever said to me, nothing. My early years are a total blur.

Quotes by Don Willett

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Quotes by Don DeLillo

I think that's something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that's one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

Quotes by Dolores Huerta

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

Quotes by Dolly Parton

From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.

Quotes by Disha Patani

My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.

Quotes by Dinaw Mengestu

I had an idyllic childhood with the freedom to go and play.

Quotes by Dick Strawbridge

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Quotes by Dido Armstrong

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

Quotes by Dido Armstrong

I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I've been truly blessed.

Quotes by Dick Clark

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Quotes by Diane Ackerman

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.

Quotes by Diana Lopez

Tackling childhood obesity is key.

Quotes by Diane Abbott

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

Quotes by Dexter Fletcher

I don't know why, but rain comes into my head the minute I think of my childhood.

Quotes by Dhanush

Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.

Quotes by Dhanush

Since childhood, I have been watching the Filmfare Awards, and it has always been very special to anyone who works in the film industry.

Quotes by Dhanush

There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.

Quotes by Diablo Cody

'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time. So clearly it had an effect on me that is unparalleled to any other film experience in my childhood.

Quotes by Devin Ratray

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

Quotes by Devon Werkheiser

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

Quotes by Devdutt Pattanaik

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on.

Quotes by Derren Brown

I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it's also the reason I've made it this far in my career. It's like, built up in me. It's what I think about when I fight. My childhood.

Quotes by Derrick Lewis

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.

Quotes by Derrick Lewis

Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.

Quotes by Derek Cianfrance

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Quotes by Derek Jacobi

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Quotes by Dennis Potter

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

Quotes by Dennis Potter

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Quotes by Dennis Potter

On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.

Quotes by Dennis Haysbert

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

Quotes by Delmore Schwartz

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

Quotes by Demi Lovato

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

Quotes by Demi Lovato

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

Quotes by DeForest Kelley

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Quotes by DeForest Kelley

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

Quotes by Debra Stephenson

A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like memories of your childhood and the experience of your family.

Quotes by Deborah Tannen

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.

Quotes by Deborah Tannen

Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.

Quotes by Deborah Tannen

For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.

Quotes by Debi Gliori

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

Quotes by Debbie Reynolds

Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts, mandated tests, rushed lunch periods, and a decrease in time for physical activity.

Quotes by Dean Ornish

To me, I don't even think I had a childhood. From when I was a baby to 12 years old, yes. But as soon as I left the Bahamas, that stuff was over. It was just straight business. I'm on a mission. That's how it's always been.

Quotes by Deandre Ayton

One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.

Quotes by Dean Cain

My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date back to ancient history, up to 10,000 years ago - but it feels that way to me. I used to have a love-hate relationship with dog stories because some got the dynamic right but most were dead wrong.

Quotes by David Wroblewski

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

Quotes by Dawn Richard

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

Quotes by David Walliams

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.

Quotes by David Steinberg

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