The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter … gave rise to fresh insights.
Ivan KlímaTags: past youth childhood memory
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
Markus ZusakTags: love laughter childhood oblivious
The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.
Ilse AichingerWe plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
Ben OkriTags: childhood
Look, I am living. On what? Neither
childhood nor future
lessens . . . . Superabundant existence
wells in my heart.
Tags: future existence childhood living
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?
Richard Paul EvansTags: children childhood adulthood parenting play
Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
George EliotTags: childhood
The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.
Heather O'NeillI think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
Sherman AlexieTags: age family parents childhood
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .
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