Best childhood & cities Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.”

Stills Song Left Cities Generations Childhood Havens Materials Advantage Forgotten Village Edgy Sedentary Open Road

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.”

Feels Beautiful Memories Cities Sun Wonderful Childhood Grew Grew Up Filled Beach Privileged Coast Eastern Beautiful City Wonderful Memories

Author:Luca Parmitano

“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.”

Way Humans Individual Cities Study Childhood Century Adults Complicated Finished Versions Curious Fascinating Transformed Infant

Book:GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

Source: GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.”

“Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.”

Source: Childhood's Future

“During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.”

Cities Violence Childhood Media Mass Newspapers Advertising Unpredictable 1960s Circulation Shanghai Portents

Author:J. G. Ballard

“I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.”

People Dream Night Cities Childhood Flying Intense Teens Facilitate

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.”

“For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.”

Should Heart Cities Gone Childhood Lonely Hungry Creeks

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.”

Stories Wanted Memories Cities Childhood Grew Grew Up Los Angeles Childhood Memories

Author:Curtis Hanson

“[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.”

Thinking Want Mind Home Happens Desire Cities Childhood New York Immigration This Life New York City Jersey New Jersey Burn Out

Author:Junot Diaz

“When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.”

People Thinking Knows Looks Cities Seeing Childhood Missing Collapse Short Time Fragility Beirut

Author:Greg Kinnear

“Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.”

Children Problem Social Common Cities Violence Childhood Example Serious Related Bullying Refugee Domestic Violence Famine Deprivation Wartime Inner City

Author:Robert Winston

“To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.”

Moving Force Space Cities Practice Childhood Built Silent Architecture Repeats Joyful Calculations Great Cities Kandinsky

Author:Michel de Certeau

“She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

“This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.”

“But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die”

Humans Dies Grows Born Human Beings Forget Cities Childhood Adolescence

Author:Elif Safak

“I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.”

Thinking Night Lost Stars Cities Childhood New York Blue Forgotten Pet Tonight New York City

Book:The Happy Birthday of Death

Source: The Happy Birthday of Death

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