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Letter "C" » Childhood
«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...»
Author: Diane Ackerman
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Writer)
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About:
Childhood
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Keywords:
conjure,
conjured,
conjures,
conjure up,
conjuring,
fleeting,
lake,
momentary,
scent,
scented,
scenting,
scents,
smell,
unexpected
«One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.»
«I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces»
«I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask.»
«I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.»
«My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.»
«I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
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Runner)
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About:
Childhood,
Illness
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Keywords:
brace,
braces,
bracing,
fever,
illnesses,
Nine Lives,
pneumonia,
polio,
scarlet,
scarlet fever,
sports,
World Series
«Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood»
«My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.»
«Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis»