The blessedness of being little!!!
William ShakespeareTags: childhood
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
Henning MankellTags: childhood
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. 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. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and say, "The children are the hope of the future." And they are right. Children are the hope of the future. But adults are the damnation of the present, and children become adults as surely as adults become worm food.
Adults are the death of hope.
Tags: love peace children war childhood hatred trust adulthood leadership maturity adults suspicion distrust
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.
John SteinbeckTags: time childhood memory plants landscape
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.
Jane SmileyTags: children childhood child-rearing
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.
Dave PelzerTags: soul childhood nightmares child-abuse abuse a-child-called-it carefree
There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is always smiling and agreeable. "Such a nice man," people say. "He never gets angry." The facade always covers its opposite expression. Inside, such a person is full of rage that he dares not acknowledge or show. Some men put up a tough exterior to hide a very sensitive, childlike quality. Even failure can be a role. Many masochistic characters engage in the game of failure to cover an inner feeling of superiority. An outward show of superiority could bring down on them the jealous wrath of the father and the threat of castration. As long as they act like failures they can retain some sexuality, since they are not a threat to her father.
Alexander LowenTags: fear sexuality childhood guilt parenthood repression suppression bioenergetics
(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.
André BretonTags: imagination art childhood gothic radcliffe
Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.
Ali ShawChildren are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
John UpdikeTags: children human childhood
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