Childhood Quote by Dan Simmons

“The young remember most deeply”

— Dan Simmons

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the…

— George Santayana

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of…

— Charlotte Bronte

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

— Dick Cavett

“The young hear memory in the voice of their elders and, delighted by these voices from the past or bored by them, too often…

— Joan D. Chittister

“What can ever equal the memory of being young together?”

— Michael Stein

“What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling paintings in…

— Gregory Maguire

“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest of life…

— E.M. Delafield

“Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of…

— Philip Roth

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the…

— Richard Livingstone

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

— Thomas Jefferson

Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of complex, rational…

— Hisham Matar