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“The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.”

Next Childhood Tears Flower Summer Flow Rose Wave Dry Cheeks Breeze Summer Breeze

Book:The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

“None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.”

Years Firsts May Evil Pieces Our Lives Childhood Youth Flower Broken Casts Lovely Immortality Intangible Ivory Mould Odor Remnants Lovely Things

Book:A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

“... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.”

Country Stars Sun Forever Childhood Fields Flower Moon Our Children Insects Lanes Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Edna O'Brien

“O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.”

Giving Lying Mystery Childhood Cry Flower Cold Stones Lips Supreme Naked Reverie Precious Stones

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.”

“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”

Knows Should Kind May Children Helping Age School Humanity Religious Sun Childhood Sweet Flower Intellectual Consequence Active Dawn Spontaneity Splendor Montessori Suppressing Veneration

Author:Maria Montessori

“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”

People May Remember Names Memories Secret Rich Tree Childhood Flower Summer Bird Seasons Grass Odor Toads

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Plucked in far-off land.”

Stories Dream Hands Memories Land Childhood Flower Band Lays Mystic Pilgrim Pluck Withered Gentiles Wreaths Childhood Dreams

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles

“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

“The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the flowers,looking at the sky...Intelligence also has to be,in the same way,childlike.”

Way Life Feels Children Persons Lasts Loses Wonder Alive Sky Childhood Flower Bird Intelligent Breaths Childlike Intelligent Person

Author:Rajneesh