Best childhood & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics

“Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.”

Firsts Might Eye Existence Land Childhood Adventure Setting Settings Instant Perpetual Truest

Book:Maps and Legends

Source: Maps and Legends

“Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.”

World Looks Mean Children Eye Beautiful Beauty Childhood Positive Perception Simplicity Very Beautiful Through The Eyes Of A Child

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”

“All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.”

Children Eye Memories Levels Childhood Scales Unreliable

Book:Mallory's Oracle

Source: Mallory's Oracle

“What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naïveté, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing the very depths of our little souls?”

Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

“When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.”

“When I'm onstage and the singer sings, "I think about childhood friends and the dreams we had" and "on board I'm the captain, so climb aboard and we'll search for tomorrow forever more."My head is down because I'm trying to keep the beat. I'll turn and look at the audience and my eyes will scan the entire space. This is a transcendent moment. I can't explain it. It has a lot of meaning to me.”

Thinking Trying Moments Dream Eye Audience Forever Childhood Tomorrow

Author:Chuck Panozzo

“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 was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.”

Eye Jesus Childhood Late Negative Abuse Died Mindset Miserable Abundant Life

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.”

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.”

Ifs Long Enough Eye Lost Half Childhood Fronts Figures Fields Standing Wave Tiny Spots Horizon Never Let Me Go

Book:Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

“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

“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil”

Giving Eye Purpose Sleep Childhood Devil Give Me Daggers Lady Macbeth Macbeth Conflict Macbeth Sleep

Author:William Shakespeare

“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.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”

Looks Persons Stills Sometimes Eye Dies Knowing Alive Imagine Seeing Childhood Goes On Died Recognizing

Book:A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

“Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.”

Eye Time Grows Loses Forget Animal Wonder Childhood Huge Speech Bird Sight Seven Accustomed Eleven Armor Converses Chunks

Book:The Favorite Game: A Novel

Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel

“Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.”

Eye Childhood Anxiety Devil Daggers Macbeth Play Lady Macbeth Macbeth Conflict Macbeth Sleep

Author:William Shakespeare

“Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?”

Firsts Looks Heart Littles Doe Sometimes Eye Care Age Games Pleasure Teaching Childhood Duty Laughter Lips Stealing Enjoyment Friendly Disposition Humane Children Love Amiable

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person.”

“As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.”

World Want Persons Eye Care Easy Parent Childhood Perspective Through The Eyes

Author:Spike Jonze

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