Childhood
Born in Antilla, Oriente Province, Cuba, he was raised on a remote farm before emigrating to New York with his family as a teenager.
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Famous quotes containing the word childhood:
“By contemplations help,not sought in vain,
I seem t have livd my childhood oer again;
To have renewd the joys that once were mine,”
—William Cowper (17311800)
“The landscape of the northern Sprawl woke confused memories of childhood for Case, dead grass tufting the cracks in a canted slab of freeway concrete. The train began to decelerate ten kilometers from the airport. Case watched the sun rise on the landscape of childhood, on broken slag and the rusting shells of refineries.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our childrens, and of what our childrens future will hold.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)