Childhood Quotes - Page 26

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home!

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.

A babe is fed with milk and praise.

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.