Childhood
Irvine was born in Roswell, Georgia to James Stephens Bulloch and Martha Stewart Elliott, and was the half brother of James D. Bulloch. His family had moved to Roswell, Georgia in 1839, and he grew up in the beautiful antebellum mansion, Bulloch Hall.
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Famous quotes containing the word childhood:
“Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade!
Ah fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray’d,”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“By contemplation’s help,not sought in vain,
I seem t’ have liv’d my childhood o’er again;
To have renew’d the joys that once were mine,”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: “youth” is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)