Artistic Quote by Gene Wolfe

“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

“... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but it may…

— Gene Wolfe

“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

It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very…

— Angela Thirkell

If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in…

— Gaston Bachelard

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories…

— Steven Johnson

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

— James Hillman

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that…

— Lillian Hellman

The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like…

— Carson McCullers

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in…

— Elizabeth Thornton

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how…

— Denis Norden