Best childhood & body Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.”

Art Body Form Childhood Elements Computer Visuals Connecting Visual Art

Author:Steve Mann

“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”

“At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.”

Body House Childhood Six Suspects Avoiding Dolls Graveyard Grotesque

Author:Anne Sexton

“And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.”

Firsts Children Body Water Watches Wonderful Childhood Strange Keys Sorrow Discovery First Time Experience Clean Everyday Surface Familiar Piano Shock Spontaneity Primal Piano Keys

Author:Anna Quindlen

“We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the two is a relatively quiescent growth period in which most of the body takes a rest from growing while the brain continues to mature. This period of life is general referred to as childhood or, sometimes, latency.”

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Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.”

“Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.”

“Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind”

Mind Believe Humans Body Life Is I Believe Simple Childhood Limits Ambition Possession Luxury Publicity Commonplace Scorned Unassuming

Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“I guess I'm pretty lucky because in childhood I studied so many martial arts styles and I never stopped researching them, my body is very adjustable and I can turn into different expressions with my body.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"”

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Author:Craig Seymour

“One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.”

Men May Stills Body Behinds Existence Attention Consciousness Imagine Sea Sky Land Childhood One Day Capable Flesh Pity Throwing Spheres Organs Adolescence Farewell Suitable Sensing

Book:Profiles Of The Future

Source: Profiles Of The Future

“Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.”

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

“I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.”

Knows Persons Enough Body Past Father Grows Realizing Childhood Birth This Life Time Travel Backwards Grandparent Stairs Puff Communes

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.”

Body Faces Dies Known Childhood Birth Moved Longing Endless Spokes

Book:Illyria

Source: Illyria

“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?”

Thinking Giving Heart Dream Body Remember Young Suffering Girl Opportunity My Own Ability Poverty Sadness Childhood Havens Mom Forgotten Pursue Eras Young Women

Author:Shin Kyung-sook

“Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.”

Heart Stills Real Body Bigs Eye Lasts Young Strong Clear Childhood Hair Fine Gold Shining Wave Edges Surface Colour Cheeks Wet Ashes Her Eyes Shields Dew Foreheads Eighteen Blonde Pumps

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.”

Body Childhood Comfortable Swimmer

Author:Estella Warren

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