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“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.”

Stills Song Left Cities Generations Childhood Havens Materials Advantage Forgotten Village Edgy Sedentary Open Road

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.”

Years Joy Childhood Forgotten Ease Joys Of Childhood

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.”

Childhood Adults Forgotten

Book:Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.”

Thinking Children Memories Childhood Future Our Children Raises Rose Forgotten Painful Surface Compare

Book:Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

Source: Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

“A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.”

“Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have forgotten, most of our early learning came not from being explicitly taught but from experiencing. Kids aren't born knowing hard and soft, sweet and sour, red and green. When the child experiences those things, s/he transforms them into psychological understandings. When kids play with other kids, they learn about others and about themselves. Learning the basics of our physical and social reality is what early childhood is all about.”

Writing Children Reality Kids Reading Understanding Childhood Sweet Forgotten Psychological Reading And Writing Early Childhood Learning To Read

Author:David Elkind

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”

Source: Road Novels 1957-1960

“Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.”

People Years Ends Country Sound Half Clear Childhood Forgotten Landscape Remembered Episodes Looking Back Scent Telescopes Misty

Book:Listening Valley

Source: Listening Valley

“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?”

Thinking Giving Heart Dream Body Remember Young Suffering Girl Opportunity My Own Ability Poverty Sadness Childhood Havens Mom Forgotten Pursue Eras Young Women

Author:Shin Kyung-sook

“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

“Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.”

Sometimes Lost Memories Childhood Adults Bottom Forgotten Covered Toys Closets Childhood Memories

Book:The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

“I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.”

Thinking Night Lost Stars Cities Childhood New York Blue Forgotten Pet Tonight New York City

Book:The Happy Birthday of Death

Source: The Happy Birthday of Death