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“From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.”

Want Mind Littles Animal Boys Imagine Childhood Changed Grew Becoming Ambition Impression Jungle Little Boys Explorers Wild Animal Early Childhood

Author:John Goddard

“Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.”

Past Childhood Changed Remembered

Book:Consequences

Source: Consequences

“All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.”

Would Be Remember Childhood Changed Strange Vague New Experiences Monotony Lapses

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.”

Years Children Black Childhood Changed Ego Garden Horse Storm Jumping Alter Ego Bamboo

Author:Romola Garai

“Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.”

Years Children States Past Social Goal Change Childhood Special Changed Periods Demand Adults Importance Ill Eras Lasting Temporary Conception Protected Adulthood Over The Past Unreasonable

Author:Sandra Scarr

“A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.”

Mean Love Is Common Childhood Changed Taught Assumption Theme Adulthood Misguided Love Means False Assumptions

Author:Bell Hooks

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them are books for children but I feel like childhood reading is this magic window and there's something that you sort of carry for the rest of your life when a book has really changed you as a kid, or affected you, or even made you recognize something about yourself.”

Thinking Children Book Kids Reading Magic Childhood Changed Window About Yourself

Author:Rebecca Stead

“We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.”

World Children Moving Childhood Changed Judging Drug Behavior Our Children Drinking Adulthood Grandchildren Peer Pressure Children And Grandchildren

Author:O. S. Hawkins

“I grew up in Nova Scotia most of my life. And three years of my childhood we actually spent in Toronto and that's when my eyes were opened and my life was changed. We went to museums and theater and I was a minority. It was fantastic.”

Eye Childhood Changed Fantastic

Author:Craig Olejnik

“I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It’s still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I’m fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing there’s one thing I haven’t told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.”

Way Years Believe Stills Happens Knowing One Thing Air Sky Childhood Havens Changed Spring Okay Miracle Seven Breathe Fifty I Smile I Have Changed Miracles Can Happen

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.”

Feels Mind Self Pleasure Vision Childhood Changed Reflection Misfortunes Exquisite Dwelling Recollection Usefulness Gloomy Tainted

Book:Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Heart Children Play Kids Fun Talking Creativity Childhood Car Changed Computer Red Essence Boxes Impulse Toys Innovative Fooled Spaceships Crayon

Author:Bill Gates