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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

Childhood, Relationships

"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

Childhood, Memory, Learning, Life

"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

Childhood, Mathematics

"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."

Isabel Allende, Chilean Writer

Childhood, Pain, Creativity, Writing

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

Paris Hilton, American Celebrity

Childhood, Kitchen

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"The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent."

Idea

"I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable."

Actor

"A lot happens in 20 years."

Years

"I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed."

Word

"You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff."

People

"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."

Experience

"It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks."

Career

"I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!"

Autobiography

"I didn't have a childhood."

Childhood