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It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.
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.
In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.
We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.
Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?
Beneath the Sugar Sky' is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.
The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious - and why you should cherish it while it lasts.
Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.
I will go back to riding one day - when I have kids. I have such amazing childhood memories of being on horseback.
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.
When you're Shredder for Halloween as a kid, and now you get to play him, it's like a childhood dream come to life.
We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident
I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.
When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.
I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.
Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.
Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.
I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban.
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.