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“The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.”

Fall Evil Childhood Tears Flow

Book:Leacock on Life

Source: Leacock on Life

“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.”

“In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”

Years Running Kids Fall House Water Poor Childhood Garden Hot Our Children Raised Humble Meat Milk Cows Hog Hot Water Bathtubs Running Water

Author:Phil Robertson

“Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed?”

Fall Father Born Cutting Sky Childhood Planets Our Children Holes Feds Dolls

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.”

Two Age Fall Childhood Tears Dawn Portions Twilight Frequency Dew

Author:William Rounseville Alger

“Although telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't. I had to put on so much makeup and wear a push-up bra and have huge hair with blond highlights. I was falling into a mentality where "more" was more beautiful.”

World Has Beens Beautiful Fall Felt Childhood Huge Hair Makeup Mentality Highlights Bras Push Ups

Author:Genesis Rodriguez

“The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness.”

Thinking World Firsts Long Enough Light Fall Father Felt Hours Dark Darkness Childhood My Friends Died Cycles Call Me Sunrise Bats Fleeting Owl Father Died My Father Died

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.”

World Able Fall Fantasy Childhood Your Children Amazing Things

Author:Ezra Miller

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?”

Ifs World Firsts Kind Different Fall Found Magic Childhood Events Bed Seasons Wake Up Snow Enchantment Snowflake Winter Snow Snow Falling First Snow Snow Storms

Author:J. B. Priestley

“If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.”

Ifs Enough Beautiful Fall Memories Our Lives One Thing Childhood Lucky Falling In Love Meals Love Life Childhood Memories Boyhood Icing

Book:Trinity

Source: Trinity

“Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood.”

Ifs Men Believe Hands Age Fall Sleep Childhood Training Eight Tenacity

Author:Milan Kundera

“We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.”

People Feels Problem Would Be Fall Love Is Emotion Childhood Falling In Love Adolescence Suitable Evoke No Love Involuntary Personal History

Book:Hector and the Secrets of Love

Source: Hector and the Secrets of Love

“You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear. "Well it all goes back to my childhood...." I began.”

Source: Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series

“My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past. Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?”

People Knows Past Fall House Loses Memories Animal Environment Childhood Taught Dad Protect Losing Connections Sacred My Dad Bricks Falling Down Childhood Memories Aboriginal

Author:Bindi Irwin