Childhood Quote by Martha Grimes Download Open image “An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.” — Martha Grimes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Idyllic Illusion
I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, 'Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.' — Gayle Rankin Copy Share Image
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of to-day - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
“any particular idiot in mind?” “I do, indeed. If Tom was actually here on Monday, and he needed an alibi, well, man, he didn’t… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
“As he followed Wood, Jury thought: one disappearance, two auto accident victims, one in a mental institution, one drowned. One murdered. Rackmoor, for all… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories. — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
“And how did he ever think he’d get away with murdering me?” Her tone implied she must surely belong to that rare breed of… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
“Fear wearing black.' Definition of cool. Maybe it's also the definition of courage. Would she be courageous?”.” — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
“Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.” — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big. — Martha Grimes 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
