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  The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected.
 ~famous childhood by Stephen Lacey, Scent in Your Garden, 1991

  Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
 ~inspirational sayings about Hypocrisy quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

  Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.
 ~childhood quotes by Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974

  It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
 ~famous quotes about Happiness by Berke Breathed

  A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
 ~childhood sayings by Author Unknown, plagiarized from the Samuel Johnson quotation It is a hopeless endeavour to unite th

  Sweet childish days, that were as long,As twenty days are now.
 ~famous childhood by William Wordsworth, To a Butterfly

  My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
 ~inspirational sayings about Fathers quotes by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

  So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
 ~childhood quotes by Gaston Bachelard

  The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.
 ~famous quotes about Brothers by Garrison Keillor

  There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.
 ~childhood sayings by Elizabeth Lawrence

  We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
 ~famous childhood by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

  Sisters share the scent and smells - the feel of a common childhood.
 ~inspirational sayings about Sisters quotes by Pam Brown

  Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
 ~childhood quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

  We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying It got lost, and say I lost it.
 ~famous quotes about Responsibility by Sidney J. Harris

  The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time
 ~childhood sayings by Jiddu Krishnamurti

   Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
 ~famous childhood by Confucius

   We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness.
 ~good sayings about Attitude by Unknown

   Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
 ~childhood quotes by Edward Young, Night Thoughts

   I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
 ~motivational quotes about Leisure sayings by Comte de Mirabeau

   Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime.
 ~childhood sayings by Edward Abbey

   Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?
 ~famous childhood by John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960

   God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
 ~good sayings about Living by Isak Dinesen

   Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
 ~childhood quotes by Voltaire

   Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
 ~motivational quotes about Philosophical sayings by Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad

   They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.
 ~childhood sayings by Richard Yates

   It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
 ~famous childhood by Margaret Bonnano

   I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon - a streak of lean and a streak of fat.
 ~good sayings about Dieting by Texas Guinan

   People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
 ~childhood quotes by Will Rogers

   We all get good and bad breaks. What we do with them decides our fate.
 ~motivational quotes about Living sayings by

   Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
 ~childhood sayings by Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1735

   Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
 ~famous childhood by Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

   Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
 ~good sayings about Hypocrisy by J. Petit-Senn

   Therefore is a word the poet must not know.
 ~childhood quotes by André Gide

   Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
 ~motivational quotes about Education sayings by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

   I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.
 ~childhood sayings by Jane Wagner

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