Best Childhood Lines

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A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe… — Densey Clyne
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is… — Black Elk
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. — Antonio Porchia
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing their parents; their… — Pierce Brosnan
Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood. Missing their mother.… — Danny Glover
Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper… — Hector Elizondo
Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children… — Richard Farson
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate,… — Paulo Coelho
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed… — Vasily Smyslov
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is… — Russell Crowe
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood. — Loren Eiseley
Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils… — Howard Zinn
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status,… — Bindi Irwin
The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the… — Rajneesh
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off… — Jacqueline Cochran
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky. — Valentina Tereshkova
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. — Joyce Carol Oates
I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of… — Tove Jansson
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image. — James Hillman
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life? — Robert Breault
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. — Katherine Anne Porter

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