Childhood Quotes - Page 7

• To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

  Robert Breault

  Children, Wonder, Worst

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• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Children, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Essentials, Fiery

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.650, Library of America

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• My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Meaningful, Hard Work, Abuse

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

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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Lying, Heaven

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• I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Giants, Different, Tuna

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• I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Divorce, Fatherhood, Nine

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• I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Gone, Faces

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Christmas, Xmas, Memories

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, Responsibility, Parenting

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• Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

  Estella Warren

  Body, Swimmer, Comfortable

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

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• So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Healing, Fire, Flare Up

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• I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

  Marcel Carne

  Thinking, Atheism, Unhappy

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• If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

  Tracy Kidder

  House, Happy Childhood, Ifs

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• When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

  Jeff Ament

  Sex, Taken, Kids

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• Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

  William H. Macy

  Actors, Good Childhood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

  George William Russell

  Betrayed, Boyhood, Christ

  'Germinal' (1931)

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• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Preparation, Poor

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• Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Sorrow, No Memory

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.104

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• Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

  Maria Montessori

  Family, Children, Parenting

  Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.

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  Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Hope, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.14, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

  Louis de Bernieres

  Insanity, Expected, Knows

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.74, Vintage

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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  Patrick Stewart

  Poor, Violent, Household

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

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• Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Winter, Snow, Provoking

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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