Children Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have but the past to parent us?”

— Kathleen Driskell

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And…

— Wong Kar-Wai

“No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.”

— Carsten Jensen

“A memory is a difficult thing to judge from a distance. Did the details unfold as the child perceived them?”

— Sana Krasikov

“Everyone’s past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.”

— Andrew Davidson

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”

— Mark Twain

“Memories can be tricky, especially those from childhood.”

— Karen Dionne

“I always thought I didn't have real childhood memories. That my history fit into a few lines. One one page, maybe. In large print.…

— Alejandro Zambra

“Maybe it was the state of childhood to not question and fear everything, it’d been so long, Pete couldn’t remember.”

— Smith Henderson

“He knew he had a lot to learn—that was why he was asking questions.”

— James Dashner

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

“I had been here, hadn’t I, a long time ago? I was sure I had. Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the…

— Neil Gaiman