Childhood Quote by Gérard de Nerval

“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent,…

— Rebecca Solnit

“In committing a work to memory we make it safe from decay. It stands untouched. Children memorize parts of stories their parents tell them.…

— Don DeLillo

“Each life experience leaves a layer of memory like a deposit of sediment: things we’ve loved and moments of contentment we’ve cherished that when…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never…

— Carl Sagan

“Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only as feelings.”

— Brian Mynott

“Memories don't die, they become shelved in recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life re-ignite them, lighting up the heart, in…

— Mala Naidoo

“Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the…

— Gaston Bachelard

“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

“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year of disarray,…

— Anna Quindlen

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

“Memories of the past are strewn like shards of glass, sometimes, lost in the mist, a distant blur, yet alive. You walk through them,…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives”

— Michael Ondaatje