Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Tags: childhood adulthood play aging
The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.
Rob SheffieldPeople never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.
Bryan WhiteAn idyllic childhood is probably illusion.
Martha GrimesTags: childhood
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim HensonTags: education learning childhood teaching
A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers.
One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before his time.
One is mortal.
They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless.
They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers.
They each die fighting the blind god.
Tags: childhood
My parents are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh...
Tags: humor parents childhood paranoia
Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future, too. We persuade ourselves that the universe is modestly employed in unfolding our destination. We note the haphazard chaos of history by the day, by the hour, but there is something wrong with the picture. Where is the unity, the meaning, of nature's highest creation? Surely those millions of little streams of accident and wilfulness have their correction in the vast underground river which, without a doubt, is carrying us to the place where we're expected! But there is no such place, that's why it's called utopia. The death of a child has no more meaning than the death of armies, of nations. Was the child happy while he lived? That is a proper question, the only question. If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.
Tom StoppardTags: happiness meaning-of-life death childhood moment-of-being tom-stoppard utopias
Oh hours of childhood,
when behind each shape more than the past appeared
and what streamed out before us was not the future.
We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half for the sake
of those with nothing left but their grownupness.
Tags: change childhood fourth-elegy
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: humor writing childhood authors southern-authors southern-writers
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