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Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.