Childhood Quote by Dennis Potter Download Open image “I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.” — Dennis Potter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Land Lost Thinking
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness,… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.” — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
