Childhood Quotes - Page 11

• And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

  Francis Quarles

  Age, One Day, Glory

  Francis Quarles (1807). “Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe”, p.30

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• Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Hope, Flower

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• The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Today, Tomorrow

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• The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Children, Faults, Loses

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• Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Belief, Produce

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.35, Routledge

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• You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Children, Rain, Snow

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• All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Race

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.20, Modern Library

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• Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.

  Woody Allen

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.

  Michael Dibdin

  Doe, May, Forget You

  Michael Dibdin (2008). “Medusa”, p.187, Faber & Faber

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• Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Wounds, Adulthood

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• I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

  Patti Davis

  Would Be, Clean, Term

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• Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Feelings, Genius

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• The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Light, Joy

  "Parerga und Paralipomena II". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Chapter XXIV, 1851.

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• What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Maturity, Names

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• I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Children, Giving, Prejudice

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• I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

  Attia Hosain

  Eye, Kissing, Cooking

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• Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

  John Searle

  Science, Technology, Brain

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• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  Damian Marley

  Mother, Brother, School

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mother, Children, Parent

  Benjamin Disraeli (1864). “Venetia”, p.210

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• The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that childhood impression, but it has stood steadfastly with me through the busy, vast hurrying years.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Years, Organization

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• Even if you've gone through an average childhood, you have girlfriends who get pregnant and then have to choose whether or not to have a child. And this stuff certainly makes you think about what you're taking on. I certainly want to have children, but I could never do it until I felt I loved myself enough, and wanted to bring someone into the world because I had some kind of security.

  Laura Dern

  Girlfriend, Children, Thinking

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• My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

  Peter Diamandis

  Dream, Effort, Humanity

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

  Stanley Donen

  Long, Southern, Stories

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• I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

  Andy Dick

  Pain, Thinking, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

  Emma Donoghue

  Unhappy Childhood, Said, Very Happy

  "Emma Donoghue: the books interview". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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