Childhood Quotes - Page 34

• My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Wrinkles, Age, Different

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• I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

  Roseanne Barr

  Stress, Resilience, Identity

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• The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

  Rebecca West

  Sacrifice, Race, Panic

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• Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

  John Ruskin

  Truth, Pride, Age

  John Ruskin (1855). “Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth”, p.29

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• The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Children, Knows

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• Childhood, who like an April morn appears,
  Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.

  Charles Churchill

  Children, Rain, Sunshine

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.137

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• Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Real, Long

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.502, Open Road Media

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• We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

  Howie Mandel

  Children, Stories, Down And

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• the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Beautiful, Garden, Our Children

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (2015). “Italian Days”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

  Freya Stark

  Christmas, Home, Heart

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.61, I.B.Tauris

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• How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Often Is, Soul

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• But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.

  Beryl Markham

  War, Integrity, Knowing Nothing

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Girl, Father, Years

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• My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

  Jim Butcher

  Stuff, Source, Exposure

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• Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

  Kathryn Hughes

  Real, Food, Autumn

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• Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

  Florence Fabricant

  Food, Cooking, Peanut Butter

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• A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

  Neil Simon

  Character, Play, Personality

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Husband, Block, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're not looking to upset anybody, and you're looking to discuss a subject that you yourself went through when you were nine - you just don't remember the difficulties of one's own childhood.

  Maurice Sendak

  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Character, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.

  Minnie Pearl

  Jesus, Laughter, Children

  Minnie Pearl, Joan Dew (1981). “Minnie Pearl: An Autobiography”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Confusion, States, Stills

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Childhood is but change made gay and visible.

  Alice Meynell

  Gay, Made, Visible

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.81, eBookIt.com

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• Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Imagination, Want, Provinces

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Baseball, Father, Team

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