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“We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down.”

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Book:And Yet: Poems

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“Calvin's Mom walks in on him. On the carpet he's been smashing rocks with a baseball bat. Mom freaks out. MOM: What on earth would make you DO something like that? CALVIN: Poor genetic material? Mom slaps her head with one hand; while her other hand expresses an almost uncontrollable rage. Now he's in his room, evidently in time out. CALVIN: Bad guess.”

Humor Childhood Parenting Satire

Book:The Days Are Just Packed

Source: The Days Are Just Packed

“CALVIN: Our country was founded a very long time ago, roughly around 200 B.C. TEACHER: (Glowering): 200 B.C.? CALVIN: Before Calvin. CALVIN: (Now sitting in the corner, wearing a dunce cap) That's what's IMPORTANT!”

Humor History Childhood Satire

Book:The Days Are Just Packed

Source: The Days Are Just Packed

“Life is small when you’re a kid. We get attached to what we can control and resist what we can’t.”

Childhood

Book:Tryst Six Venom

Source: Tryst Six Venom

“Will the freshness, unconcern, need for love and strength of faith you posses as a child ever return? What time could have been better than when the two finest virtues - innocent gaiety and a limitless need for love - were life's only impulses? Where are those ardent prayers? Where is the best gift - those pure tears of tenderness? A comforting angel would fly down to dry those tears with a smile and waft sweet reveries into the uncorrupted imagination of childhood.”

Love Childhood

Book:Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Source: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

“I have stored these memories the way any child stores memory--a haphazard collection of sharp, bright objects socked away on the darkest shelves in the dustiest corners of our mental filing systems. They stay there, those memories, rattling in the dark. Scratching at the walls. Disrupting our careful ordering of what we think is true. And injuring us when we forget how dangerous they are, and we grasp too hard.”

Childhood Memory Trauama

Book:When Women Were Dragons

Source: When Women Were Dragons

“My mother would let me outside to play on the sidewalk. Getting to know me better, she fastened me to the railing by a rope so I couldn't wander off or go into the street.”

Humor Childhood Memoir

Book:Lady Slippers

Source: Lady Slippers

“There is nothing wrong with being a child; in fact, it is far more important than you know. You are entitled to your childhood, Eric. All boys and girls are, and it is the adults’ responsibility to protect those childhoods. When you are grown up, then it will be your job to protect the younger ones.”

Childhood

Book:The House Witch 3

Source: The House Witch 3

“You must know there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into his life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.”

Childhood Religion And Philoshophy

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“Shutting down behind self-pity and secret shame; sacrificing themselves to childish mothers and selfish men; vaguely yearning, self-medicating; painting someone else's pictures; obediently tracing the magic circle. afraid, entranced. There are so many different ways to drown.”

Childhood Girlhood Personal Essays Women S Studies

Book:Ornament and Silence

Source: Ornament and Silence

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