Childhood Quotes - Page 8

• Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

  Samuel Smiles

  Children, Mirrors, Firsts

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.34

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• Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mean, Exercise, Men

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• All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Parent, Needs

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• Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Inspirational, Children, Night

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• For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Dream, Years, Long

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• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  Orlando Bloom

  Character, Knights, Play

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• The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

  DeForest Kelley

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

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• Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Maturity, Reflection, Long

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• The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, First Love, Aquariums

  "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Sleep, Reason

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.144, eKitap Projesi

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• Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Years, Giving

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• Genius is childhood recalled at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Genius

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• When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

  Hermann Hesse

  Glowing, Discovery, Trying

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• Lord, give to me who are old and rougher
  The things that little children suffer,
  And let keep bright and undefiled
  The young years of the little child.

  John Masefield

  Children, Years, Giving

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Pain, Husband, Challenges

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• How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

  Harold Ramis

  Determined, Handle, Success Or Failure

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today Interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

  Pablo Picasso

  Time, Zero, Children

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

  Charley Pride

  Dream, People, Fatherhood

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Waiting, Hell, Moments

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1981). “Memories and Commentaries”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• I gave up my childhood for a career.

  Brenda Lee

  Careers, Gave Up

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• Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Children, Men, Fatherhood

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• To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

  Plutarch

  Life, Men, Ignorant

  Plutarch (1832). “Lives of the most select and illustrious characters of antiquity”, p.9

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• It is a wise child that knows his own father.
  [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

  Homer

  Wise, Children, Father

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• That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

  Satish Kumar

  Morning, Fatherhood, Evening

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• Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

  David Elkind

  Inspirational, Teenager, Choices

  David Elkind (1994). “Parenting Your Teenager”

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