Childhood Quotes - Page 22

• What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Men, My Birthday, Bats

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.18, Zondervan

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• I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

  Pete Wentz

  House, Parent, Forever

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• What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

  John Ruskin

  Regret, Men, Healthy

  John Ruskin “Two paths. Lectures on art, delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870. Aratra Pentelici. Time and tide. Pre-Raphaelitism. The eagle's nest. King of the Golden River. The relation between Michael Angelo and Tintoret”

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• For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Children, Healing, Night

  1978 Of the night sky in Nepal. The Snow Leopard,'Northward, October18'.

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• A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Color, Roots

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• I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.

  George F. Kennan

  Seductive, Promise, Quality

  GEORGE F. KENNAN (1967). “MEMOIRS 1925-1950”

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• The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

  William Mountford

  Believe, Age, Saint

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.2

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• When I was a kid people always asked why I didn't act like the rest of my family, and parents would say, "Well, she needs a childhood! We would never allow her to do that even if she wanted to". They were as involved in my life as any parents are in any person's life.

  Blake Lively

  Kids, People, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

  Michelle Obama

  Struggle, Kids, Challenges

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• Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Issues, Important

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• In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.

  Betty Edwards

  Children, Giving Up, Passion

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• Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

  Aleatha Romig

  Past, Changed, Remembered

  Aleatha Romig (2011). “Consequences”, p.104, Romig Works LLC

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• The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Taken, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.369, Penguin

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• All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

  George Eliot

  New Experiences, Would Be, Lapses

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1676, ShandonPress

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• O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!

  Virginia Woolf

  Blessed, Rivers, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1973, Delphi Classics

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• To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Long, Stones

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

  Lewis Carroll

  Sadness, Gay, May

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.967, Delphi Classics

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• According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Princess, Ambition

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• O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

  Pablo Neruda

  Blessed, Mars, Our Love

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• Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.

  Randall Jarrell

  Country, Confused, Passion

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The Development of Yeats's Sense of Reality" (p. 89), 1980.

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• And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!

  Luc de Clapiers

  Children, Heart, Dark

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• Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Agents, Return

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• Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny.

  Pauline Kael

  Children, Simple, Small Changes

  Pauline Kael (1980). “When the lights go down”, Henry Holt & Co

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• The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.

  Woody Allen

  People, Different, World

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, People, Vision

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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