Sentences with phrase «idyllic childhood»

I had the most idyllic childhood growing up in a small town.

And while these everyday summer activities may not necessarily inspire idyllic childhood memories of summer, they will happily fill... MORE those long summer days spent at home.

«My husband's parents did not want to leave the home they loved and he wanted out children to have the same idyllic childhood he had had, so we rebuilt the property as two connected houses.»

While Kennedy admitted she had a mostly idyllic childhood, she highlighted how the assassinations of her father, Robert Kennedy; her uncle, John F. Kennedy; and Martin Luther King, followed by traumatic experiences faced by some of her friends who have been raped, grown up in abusive homes, and died of AIDS, made her question why these things happen.

Okla and Helen operated a successful Manhattan Beach realty office, and Thomas remembers a nearly idyllic childhood surrounded by family and friends.

The affectionate name was derived from both Grandmas; first there's paternal Grandma Dot who worked as a skilled embroiderer of silk bedding who played a huge role in inspiring Kate's love of fabric and print design, then there's Grandma Ivy who's farm was the place Kate spent idyllic childhood holidays exploring the farmhouse filled with antique furniture and rustic textiles.

«My husband wanted our children to have the same idyllic childhood that he'd had, living on the family farm, so we decided to knock down the cottage and build a house large enough for us all to live under one roof,» says the owner.

Sounds like an idyllic childhood and I would definitely have chosen to make the cake, it looks so good.

It echoes my idyllic childhood climbing trees, swimming in rivers, playing in gangs back in the days when gangs just played games and hated no one else.

He recalls an idyllic childhood there, making and flying kites and playing marbles, until the age of 7, when civil war broke out in Somalia.

Based on two autobiographies by Le Ly Hayslip, the young Vietnamese girl (Hiep Thi Le) lives, what is depicted, as an idyllic childhood, working the wheat fields with her family.

An idyllic childhood takes a sinister turn.

Her funny, moving memoir, told with clear - eyed unsentimental affection, is about an idyllic childhood and a family's enthusiasm for each other and the world around them, with the essence of Africa - both beautiful and challenging - infusing every page.

With vivid imagery and pleasing alliteration, she captures his idyllic childhood and budding love for language: «As Elwyn grew, he surveyed the summer stars....

Bryson describes his idyllic childhood growing up in the middle of the USA, in the middle of the last century, in the middle of the baby boom years - a time of unprecedented prosperity for the country as a whole, quite different to the depression - era experiences of the previous generation; but it's not all rose - tinted glasses - the threat of nuclear war, Joe McCarthy, and America flexing its muscles overseas all come into the picture.

Six years later, Paul's death reunites his sons at Tealing, their idyllic childhood home, where Fenno, the eldest, faces a choice that puts him at the center of his family's future.

To hear him tell it, he had an idyllic childhood, marked by just the right amounts of doting and benign neglect.

As her peers back in America came of age in the tumultuous»60s, Collymore experienced an idyllic childhood in an alternate universe.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has recalled an idyllic childhood in prior interviews.

I feel so incredibly blessed to have had such an idyllic childhood.