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Childhood Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.…
- In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
- If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and…
- The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are…
- I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality -…
- I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into…
- Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
- I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
More Childhood Quotes
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. — Lance Armstrong
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back… — Ann Bancroft
- Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Genius is childhood recalled at will. — Charles Baudelaire
- What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. — Martha Beck
- I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to… — Chester Bennington