Adult life Quote by Umberto Eco Download Open image “I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.” — Umberto Eco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adult life Adults Childhood Children Consider Adult Life Life Continuous Retrieval Childhood
“we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness,… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this? — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Childhood, a stage of Life in Which u have nothing to do, only busy in collecting memories for your reaming life: — Kashif Zaman Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding. — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my adult life in a ghetto among countless other outsiders who have also learned how to talk through the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life. — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
“She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“When I heard Zizek’s statement, I have to admit that I reacted strongly against it. For the first twenty-five years of my adult life,… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image
