Quotes About Childhood

And he was silent again, for who is not silent when someone is dead, who was a small bright boy?

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

I lived there as a boy and know the coalGlittering in its shed, late-afternoonLambency informing the deal table,The ceiling cradled in a radiant spoon.I must be lying low in a room there,A strange child with a taste for verse,While my hard-nosed companions dream of fireAnd sword upon parched veldt and fields of rain-swept gorse.

If you do grow up feeling as though you don't quite fit in as a child, it's very easy to decide you're certain not going to fit in as an adult. You hang on to your eccentricities and hate the idea of conforming. It's a common pattern.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

Never go to sleep with bad thoughts and torturing memories. They will not help you to wake up whole and fully serene—the two states of mind and body without which no man can acquit himself well at his day's task. A child should be ushered into the chamber of sleep with serene joy.

To our young selves, though, there is no difference between the small questions and the big ones. We follow our curiosity to the edge of our understanding and then ask whoever is around what lies beyond it. I have spent my adult life fighting to keep what I possessed as a child: the ability to see the biggest questions sitting inside the smallest ones and the willingness to try to answer them.

Incluso en mi niñez lo tuve prohibido, y aunque a veces subía por los tejados y miraba a través de la ventana lo que mis antepasados habían guardado en esa oscura habitación nunca supe lo que se ocultaba. Ahora estoy allí, y nadie me ha detenido.

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See, Jace never learned how to flirt properly, because he was raised by a murderous sociopath.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky.

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

I grew up where the family of butterflies the Silver Cloud is native.

What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady ' 'Funny Face ' 'American in Paris ' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

I hadn't had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me

Comment prendre part à leurs jugements sans être infidèle à sa propre enfance3 ? » Chaque fois que je fus « infidèle » à mon enfance, en prenant part à des jugements dépréciatifs, une sourde mauvaise conscience ne manqua jamais, tôt ou tard, de se manifester en moi.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Ghosts are common to the life of any child:mine just happened to come to dinner more often than most

E la sera, dalla mia stanza di bambina, guardo I lumi della città sul mare. E certe volte ho l'impressione di essere ancora quella di una volta, e che gli anni non siano mai passati. E penso : laggiù è la vera vita, laggiù il mondo, l'avventura, il sogno ! E fantastico un giorno o l'altro di partire. Lo vede dunque che non è mai finita ?

Nu hield ik erg van groot en zacht, dat doe ik nog. Ik ging trouw naar bed met een vossebont dat vreselijk verhaarde en kleine glimmende kraaloogjes had. Het is tot nu toe mijn grootste liefde gebleven, samen met de geelgerande watertor, een half jaar gehouden in een zinken emmer, toen ging hij dood; en wellicht die poedel gekocht bij de dames Heuvel van de speelgoedwinkel, zelf uitgezocht, ja, ik had goede ouders.