Graham Greene Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

• Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Memories, Book

  "The Ministry of Fear". Book by Graham Greene. Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 1, 1943.

• From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

  Graham Greene

  Years, Childhood, Forever

• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Doors, Childhood

• Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Remembrance, Childhood

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

• Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?

  Graham Greene

  Children, Childhood, Forever

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

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