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“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.”

Source: Big Stone Gap: A Novel

“And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!”

World Heart Children Earth Dark Childhood Youth Code Alas Impart

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.”

Children Persons Earth Childhood Stage Educated Educated Person

Book:Novalis: Philosophical Writings

Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

“While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”

Children Dream Earth Left Imagination Childhood Holy Wings Spread

Book:The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes

Source: The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes

“The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.”

Men Feels Moments Earth Seeing Feet Childhood Events Type Impressive Earthquakes Insignificance Solidity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.”

Wells May Persons Long Has Beens Character Dream School Earth Reading Goal Childhood Middle Events Honesty College Ideals Philosopher Annoyed Narnia Grad Middle Earth Grad School

Author:N.D. Wilson

“When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.”

World Long Whole Stories Earth Form Life Is Individual Greater Our Lives Mystery Childhood Movement Expression Seasons Harmony Limitation Parenthood Gravity Individual Life Maleness

Author:Jack Kornfield

“We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.”

Has Beens Made Earth Realizing Clear Childhood Dog Objects Ordinary Cat Army Everyday Enormous Forests Familiar Grass Chairs Dirt Unfamiliar Pebbles Swarms Everyday Things Clear Day

Book:Cosmos: A Novel

Source: Cosmos: A Novel

“Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood.”

Stills Eye Earth Water Mystery Blood Childhood Summer Rivers Seven Bless Pulse Ultima

Author:Rudolfo Anaya

“We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth.”

People World Reason Moments Earth Felt Childhood Planets Mets Moved Faults Despite Contempt Spectacular Vigorous Oddballs

Author:Donna Tartt

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .”

Ifs Wells Earth Used Time Childhood Flower Spring Fingers Come Up Tiny Grass Sat

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”

Ifs Wells Children Earth Childhood Nostalgia Nostalgic Childhood Memories

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries.”