Childhood Quote by Thomas Hardy Download Open image ““If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.”” — Thomas Hardy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Forever young Growing up
“Lots of children I know are excited to grow up. So I wonder why this man was so happy to become young again?” — Sara Rich Copy Share Image
“That was when I realized a shocking thing. I couldn't become a man without becoming The Man. Even if I didn't want to.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become him. He would keep acting until he couldn't… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever grow up. Don’t become a bore. Don’t ever let the Man get to you.” — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“They might curse you, even despise you for doing so, but it took strong measures to ensure that a boy lived long enough to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.” — J. Sterling Copy Share Image
“Growing up wasn't so bad, as long as you did it with the right person.” — Monica Alexander Copy Share Image
“I used to believe that Dad could do anything, save me from anything. But he can’t, he’s just a man.” — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy 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
