“Since there is no such thing as a place of childhood neutrality, your children either worship God or idols.” — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
“I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles… — Gabe A. Lopez Copy Share Image
I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager. — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion. — Plato Copy Share Image
With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood,… — Natasha Richardson Copy Share Image
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then… — Elizabeth Thornton Copy Share Image
I have great memories from childhood. Of course, the divorce, when I was 11, was tough. But my mom, especially, did a… — Malcolm Brogdon Copy Share Image
“One of the (uncontemplated) pleasures of childhood and adolescence was how rigorously we exchanged comics and books with our buddies. As adults… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
“Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We communed together a moment, one with the other—I was deeply fascinated. At our first encounter I am sure I had a… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD has produced a great many paradoxes. The most curious, however, may be that children have acquired more and… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
Barack's mother was very important to him, but he spent a great deal of his life living in a different place. So,… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
“At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in his mother's… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
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