"The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay."

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"The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay."

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"Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Childhood, Awe, Holiday, Resentment

"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."

Tommy Rettig, American Actor

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"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic."

Bill Cosby, American Comedian

Childhood, Friends, Play

"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."

William Joyce, American Author

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"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Childhood, Innocence, Future, Freedom

"There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Childhood, Joy, Innocence, Identity

"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

Childhood, First, Gay, Teachers, Teaching

"I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood."

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"My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!"

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"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

Death

"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

Difference

"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."

Heart

"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."

Time

"It was part of your religion to hate the British."

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"Reform is born of need, not pity."

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"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage."

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"But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth."

Fault

"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North."

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