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Childhood Quotes (page 15)

Carol Shields quote: "A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it? It leaves..."
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it? It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. Carol Shields
Marcel Proust quote: "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully..."
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book. Marcel Proust
Sometimes Arthur talked about his childhood. As a boy he was delicate and had never been sent to school. An only son, he lived alone with his widowed mother, whom me adored. Together they studied literature and art; together they visted Paris, Baden-Baden, Rome, moving always in the best society, from Schloss to chteau, from chteau to palace, gentle, charming, appreciative; in a state of perpeutal tender anxiety about each other's health. Christopher Isherwood
I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky. John Clare
The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify by their own lonesome familiarities to this feeling. Ecstasy, even , I felt, with flashes of sudden... Jack Kerouac
They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness; Elizabeth Gaskell
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentile hand. Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined. In memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers. Pluck'd in a far off land. Lewis Carroll
Jimmy Fallon quote: "Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least..."
Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. Jimmy Fallon
The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic. Jeffrey Eugenides
... Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the future. We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half for the sakeof those with nothing left but their grownupness. Rainer Maria Rilke
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much..."
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but... Gene Wolfe
Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go. Johnny Depp
William Wordsworth quote: "Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood."
Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood. William Wordsworth
I could have done even better, miss, and I'd know a lot more, if it wasn't for my destiny ever since childhood. I'd have killed a man in a duel with a pistol for calling me low-born, because I came from Stinking Lizaveta without a father, and they were shoving that in my face in Moscow. It spread there thanks to Grigory Vasilievich. Grigory Vasilievich reproaches me for rebelling against my nativity: 'You opened her matrix,' he says. I don't know about her matrix, but I'd have let them kill... Fyodor Dostoevsky

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