I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

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Christmas, to me, is as many people as possible happy. – Tupac Shakur

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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. – Shirley Temple

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You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.

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Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart. – Freya Stark

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood. – Richard Paul Evans

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