Best childhood & five Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.”

Men Kind Stills Five Childhood Fields Brother Balls Blessed Work Out Corners Bowls Bloody Turkeys Athletic

Author:Danny Pino

“I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.”

Lost Five Childhood Function Proof Senses Five Senses

Author:Yves Klein

“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.”

Running Chance Space Careers Five Childhood Achieve Ambition British Your Children Princess Cowboy Polls Rangers

Author:Jay Leno

“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.”

“I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.”

Self Moments Science Five Childhood Minutes Buddhism Five Minutes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.”

Five Childhood Dad Splits Mum Mum And Dad

Author:Mark Ronson

“A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.”

Children Made Reason Hands Three Five Pieces Written Childhood Subjects Eating Mouths Hundred Raises Psychological Welfare Experts Remove Fists Carpet Seminars

Book:Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

Source: Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

“I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?”

Years War Laughing Five Childhood Five Years Bombs

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.”

“The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Jobs Remember Night Next Memories Watches Five Childhood Minutes Stage Ready Goes On Opening Make Sense Queens Mum Spain Schizophrenic Vomiting Opening Night

Author:Javier Bardem

“I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can't keep that. You can't have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you're not an honorable person and if you're not a respectful person. And that's exactly what I am.”

People Ifs Years Kind Persons Five Childhood My Friends Five Years Honorable Lifelong Respectful Five Year Olds Lifelong Friends Childhood Friend

Author:Tony Vlachos

“Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.”

Way Years Lasts Easy Hours Five Childhood Forty Reverse Easy Way

Author:Pico Iyer

“I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.”

“What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five kids. So I had the great advantage of being able to play up to the older kids and play down to the younger kids and I think that's part of what propelled me to become a teacher at some point in my life. But it was a comfortable childhood. It was a privileged childhood.”

Thinking Kind Play Kids Able School Social Five Teacher Childhood Middle Comfortable Advantage Agendas Privileged Social Life

Author:Bill Ayers

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

Years Children Real Sound Five Childhood Humorous Parenting Five Years Menace Five Year Olds Funny Parent

Book:Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies

“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.”

Ifs Humans May Age Fear Five Air Atheism Childhood Educational Rage Absurdity Repetition Solemnity

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.”

Thinking Years Humans Looks Felt Race Five Four Childhood Planets Members Comfortable My Family Aliens Human Race Five Years Tall Skinny Disconnected Five Year Olds

Author:Patti Smith

“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”

“Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.”

Years Long School Choices Names Five Four Childhood Needed Late Twenties University Affair Forgotten Thirty Five Years Teens Leavers

Author:Ian Mcewan

“The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.”

Children Purpose Parent Enjoy Family Five Four Childhood Importance Prime

Author:Jim Trelease

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