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We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood. -- David Elkind
The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom. -- Rajneesh
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. -- Dennis Potter
My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama. -- Louise Bourgeois
I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family. -- Emmanuel Jal
I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt. -- Emily Ratajkowski
You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate. -- Alexa Vega
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days. -- Danielle de Niese
When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. -- Paul Theroux
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. -- Mary Lou Retton
Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood. -- Whitley Strieber
I have actually been sporty right from my childhood. I was quite chubby in the first eight years of my life. But then I began playing volleyball in school. That did it. I lost all my baby fat and became slim. -- Shilpa Shetty
Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom. -- Adrian Peterson
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore. -- Ann Hood
The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. -- Martti Ahtisaari
The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood. -- Ted Naifeh
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well. -- William Gibson
So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of clarity. It is that discovery of the past in the present on which a writer depends again and again as if our lost childhoods, like the surprising cyclamen plant, are forever opening new blossoms. -- Susan Shreve
When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life. -- Jane Siberry
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was. -- Umberto Eco
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. -- Fernando Pessoa
The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps. -- Milan Kundera
I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand. -- Gabriela Mistral
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama. -- Louise Bourgeois
I think of New York City lost in starsforgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full; -- Gregory Corso
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident -- Shannon Hale
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood... -- Yves Klein
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third. -- John Marsden
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' -- Sydney J. Harris
Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it. -- Graham Greene
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed. -- George William Russell
Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart. -- Michael Jackson
The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way. -- Joe Hill
.....He lost his childhood but in return got worthy wealth, the wisdom ....! -- M.H. Rakib

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