quotations about childhood
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
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The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
The rustling of a wild-bird's wings,
A star, a flower, a gush of rain,
The sight of sad or joyous things,
Oft makes me seem a child again:
With voiceless eloquence they come,
Bright phantoms of my childhood's home.
ROSA VERTNER JEFFREY
"My Childhood's Home"
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
FRANK MCCOURT
Angela's Ashes
When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult ... then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear.
PETER DAVID
Tigerheart
Adolescents are simply those people who haven't as yet chosen between childhood and adulthood.
GENE WOLFE
The Book of the Short Sun
It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight and rode for life, growing the heavier to carry as time passed.
STEPHEN KING
The Gunslinger
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
RICHARD PAUL EVANS
The Gift
And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth?
In childhood's uncorrupted heart;
Alas! too soon to guileless youth
The world doth its dark code impart!
ANNE S. BUSHBY
"The Morn of Life"
They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.
HEATHER O'NEILL
Lullabies for Little Criminals
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
A Circle of Quiet
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears--
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain--
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN
"Rock Me to Sleep"
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Man
Childhood is a meadow
For angels without wings
Childhood is a meadow
Of toys an' rose-covered swings
With singing brooks
For laughing hearts at play
And a fence made of rainbows
To keep every care away
PERRY COMO
"Childhood Is a Meadow"
My childhood is like a part I once had in a play. I was the actress but not the author and now I can't remember any of my lines, although the stage sets are still so vivid that they dominate my dreams.
JOY COWLEY
Classical Music
Childhood is like a mist in so many ways. A mist in which a you is moving to become another you.
AMIRI BARAKA
The Autobiography of Leroi Jones
The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.
EUGENE IONESCO
Present Past / Past Present
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
"A Sketch of the Past,", Moments of Being
That unpaced corridor which I called childhood, which was not living but rather some projection of the lightless womb itself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Absalom
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.
SAMUEL SMILES
Character
On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
J.M. BARRIE
Peter Pan