Quotes About Childhood

When Becka was a kid, she kept a suitcase under the bed. The suitcase was full of things that were to be rescued in case of an earthquake or a fire or murderers. The suitcase's secondary function was using up some of the dangerous, dark space under the bed which might otherwise have been inhabited by monsters or dead people. Here be suitcases.

Batu said, "The All-Night is a great place to raise a family. Everything you need, right here. Diapers, Vienna sausages, grape-scented Magic Markers, Moon Pies—kids like Moon Pies—and then one day, when they're tall enough, we teach them how to operate the register.

They may compel their child to work in the mine until he reaches the age of twenty-one, but' Ã¢â'¬Âââ'¬â€Mack paused dramatically and read the next bit very slowly—" Ã¢â'¬Ëœbut then he will be free to leave!

Se sentía como si hubiera sido un niño hasta ese día… Era como si hubiese estado viviendo en una casa con habitaciones en las que jamás había entrado, y la hubiese compartido con unos extraños a quienes jamás les había puesto los ojos encima. Se sentía desorientado por el descubrimiento de su propia ignorancia. Era como perder el equilibrio.

Matar a un ruiseñor

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

As I remember them, late summer Saturdays were always hot, dry, and colored a deep green. I know now some Saturdays must have been gray; rain must have made water princesses dance in gutter puddles, as my grandmother assured me they did, each time a drop plunked down. But I will never really believe it rained on Saturdays, for I can remember only the sun playing with bits of broken glass in the vacant lot next to my house and myself running all day up and down the block like a heathen.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

This was like childhood, this grief.