Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
Orson Scott CardTags: childhood introduction orson-scott-card personhood
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
Alfred HitchcockTags: fear childhood fairy-tales wolves
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.
Audrey Niffenegger. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.
Barbra StreisandTags: childhood highs-lows
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages...the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide... Far too many people misunderstand what *putting away childish things* means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I'm with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and *be* fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: age childhood adulthood forgetting
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: inspirational childhood rites-of-passage
Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.
Laurie Halse AndersonTags: humor childhood humiliation gym p-e physical-education
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Tom RobbinsTags: innocence children youth childhood
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
Richard Paul EvansTags: childhood impermanence sunsets
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.
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