“My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.” FirstsRememberFatherMemoriesChildhoodGoes OnStoresBuyingFishingTentsCampingPups Author:David Suzuki
“As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.” IfsLife IsSpiritWishAcceptingTeachWonderfulChildhoodYouthReadyRegretHairGoes OnReturnLessonsSeasonsAgingAcceptedGoldenDustBrownSilverClayGarmentsSeasons Of LifeBrown HairGolden HairLife Is Wonderful Author:Peace Pilgrim
“I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.” ThinkingWantShouldChildrenHas BeensSometimesMistakeChildhoodGoes On Book:Stormy Petrel Source: Stormy Petrel
“Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.” MenYearsStillsLeftReligiousTeachingChildhoodGoes OnImaging Author:Leo Tolstoy
“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.” ThinkingKindHas BeensJobsRememberNightNextMemoriesWatchesFiveChildhoodMinutesStageReadyGoes OnOpeningMake SenseQueensMumSpainSchizophrenicVomitingOpening Night Author:Javier Bardem
“Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.” LightTakenGrowingChildhoodGoes OnYour ChildrenMature Book:The World Beyond Time Source: The World Beyond Time
“It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.” YearsFirstsBookBigsFatherGamesHouseDifficultWhiteInterestingChildhoodGoes OnHonorLettersRedemptionWhite HouseHuntingPublishingPublishFirst LadyEleanorReconnecting Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.” WellsKindAbleDealsChildhoodGoes OnProcessingLife Goes On Author:V. S. Naipaul
“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.” TwoEndsDreamChildhoodGoes OnAdultsPracticalsMistCoffinsTwo Lives Author:Fernando Pessoa
“we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.” IfsLooksChildrenStillsMomentsHeavenVoiceSilenceMagicChildhoodCryGoes OnBlessedKingdomsEnthusiasmInnocenceRebornKingdom Of HeavenMagic Moments Author:Paulo Coelho
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.” FirstsHas BeensI CanMomentsRememberMemoriesForeverChildhoodGoes OnShatteringRosencrantz And Guildenstern Author:Tom Stoppard
“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.” LooksPersonsStillsSometimesEyeDiesKnowingAliveImagineSeeingChildhoodGoes OnDiedRecognizing Book:A Scanner Darkly Source: A Scanner Darkly