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childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood secret fatherhood
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Max Muller
childhood facts matter
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. Michael Gruber
childhood dream life lived taking
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. Bernard Berenson
childhood growing nasty
I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood. Jennifer Anderson
childhood current foresight funding growing imagine issue legend obesity seems sought
She was a legend in her time. The issue of childhood obesity seems so current now, but imagine what it was like in the 1960s when she sought funding for such studies. She had foresight into a growing problem.
childhood country government history second
She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood. Simon Hoggart
would-be attention known
I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place. Brandon Routh
would-be sensible things-to-do
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do. Jane Gardam
would-be imagine slave
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work. Aristotle
would-be ifs one-word
If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time. Andy Goldsworthy
would-be firsts episodes
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode. Anthony Michael Hall
would-be use firsts
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits? Thomas Jefferson
would-be fabric arches
In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part. Robert Boyle
would-be ifs
He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs. Stephen Chbosky
would-be want proud
No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you. Stephen Colbert