Childhood Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

— James Ellroy

I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the…

— Jean Houston

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

— Aleatha Romig

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we…

— John Green

I still remember the world through the eyes of a child. Suddenly those feelings were clouded by what I know now.

— Evanescence

“Children need to see that they are part of a history and that the story of their family is a living thing. God tells…

— Michael D. O'Brien

History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room…

— Steven Spielberg

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and…

— George Eliot

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along…

— Garth Greenwell

Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences…

— Linda Simon

It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't…

— David Lowery

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened…

— Jello Biafra