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70 Our Childhood quotes by 61 unique authors

The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His… — George MacDonald
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver
The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy… — John Updike
It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most… — Lucy Larcom
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest… — Lucy Larcom
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species… — Lewis Thomas
We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are. — Lynn Grabhorn
I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather. — Bernard Levin
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. — Vinoba Bhave
That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a… — Tom Segev
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation. — Alice Miller
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth,… — Charles Dickens
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of… — John Irving
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we… — Patrick Rothfuss
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous — John le Carre
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood… — Tennessee Williams
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,… — Ben Okri
We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up… — Lisa See
. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All of us are products of our childhood. — Michael Jackson
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form,… — Jack Kornfield
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open. — W G Sebald
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and… — Graham Greene
This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know… — Paulo Coelho

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