Books Quote by Howard Pyle

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

— John Dufresne

“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

“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

“In this universe if we’re lucky, we will live in our children’s stories, their tales that will turn us to legend, some absurd truth…

— Jeanne Lohmann

“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the…

— Roger Rosenblatt

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

— Katharine Anthony

“[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

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

— Ivan Doig

“A few minutes after they left, Harold bought the blanket from his bed, surrounded himself with his stuffed-toy animals, and built a fort out…

— David Brooks

“I didn't like what that word-'childhood'-conjured up, or rather, I didn't like the way most people use it: that presumption of innocence and starry-eyed…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

“All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously occupied in their souls with the only thing that is important,…

— Hermann Hesse

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from…

— John Updike