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It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Being Childhood Childhoods Children Distinction Emotional Hard Help House Kids Legacy Lived Lucky Make Out Remembered Separate Will You Your

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I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

~Ayelet Waldman

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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

~Barbara Broccoli

Topics: Childhood Extraordinary Had Say I Can

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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

~Barbara Corcoran

Topics: Adult Believing Best Big-Time Childhood Ever Good Good Way Life Made Me Mistake My Life Out Played Rest Scorned Stupid Thing Way

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Adage Anything Believe Busy Childhood Doing Early How Learned Life Me Often Repeated Saw Secret Successful The Secret Of Through Truly Very Well Worth I Believe

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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Appreciate Blessing Childhood Get Lot More Older Outdoors Rural Spent Time Which

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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

~Barbet Schroeder

Topics: Because Been Childhood Colombia Country Following Happening

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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: Age Always Books Born Boundless Car Childhood Curiosity Dad Eight Encouraged Engine Explained Had He Making Many Medical Mother Nursing Reading Suspect Technical Through Well I Was Born

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I spent my childhood in Delhi. I have met my wife here. I spent my life here with my parents and sister. It's been beautiful. But I have very fond memories.

~Barun Sobti

Topics: Beautiful Been Childhood Delhi Fond Fond Memories Here Life Memories Met My Life Parents Sister Spent Very Wife

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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Almost Among Behold Belief Cherished Childhood Day Desire Early Early Childhood Enthusiastic Fancy Had Haunted Long Me Old Old World One Day Scenes Should Visiting Wandered Which World

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