Best childhood & gone Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.”

People Ifs Shows Problem Given Gone Childhood Band Noses Happy Place Personal Problems

Author:Billy Corgan

“Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.”

People Way Writing Reading Interest Gone Happened Childhood Normal Universal Memoir Outrageous Threshold Weirdness

Author:Sara Nelson

“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.”

Source: Big Stone Gap: A Novel

“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.”

Believe Long Past Joy Mother Father Imagination Memories Morning Gone Forever Childhood Sunlight Recalls Our Father Bosoms Our Memories Gladness Apricots Joys Of Childhood

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”

Thinking Children Ideas Might Kids Past Parent Gone Taken Land Childhood Adventure Degrees Incredibles Strikes Neighbor Significant Graves Kingdoms Wilderness Portions Adulthood Exile

Author:Michael Chabon

“But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.”

Children Stills Soul Age Lying Gone Doubt Childhood Drawing Shore Mist Misty

Book:Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

“Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison.”

Faces Gone Grace Childhood Daughter France Our Love

Book:King Lear

Source: King Lear

“My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.”

Writing Two Ideas Whole Film Young Girl Three Process Understanding Watches Gone Childhood Scripts Dialogue No Idea Etc Filmmaking Screenplays Bollywood Writing Scripts

Author:Rani Mukerji

“It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.”

World Children Young Grows Wonder Gone Growing Up Childhood This World Terrible Instant Young Children Continuation Sense Of Wonder

Author:Lucien Bouchard

“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”

“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.”

“Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.”

Long Memories Gone Childhood Lifts Perfume Filling Fragrance

Author:Christian Dior

“As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.”

Children Moments Stories Gone Childhood Rivers Photograph Caught Our Family Sand Footprint Ephemeral

Author:Sally Mann

“There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when I'm lost, I just feel like somewhere along the line, if you've gone through any childhood trauma, it makes you lose your essence and it takes a while to get that back. There are certain things about that that push my buttons.”

Ifs Feels Certain Lost Loses Lines Deals Gone Childhood Essence Trauma Uncomfortable Buttons Childhood Trauma Define You

Author:Mike Ness

“In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them.”

Littles Animal Gone Saws Childhood Fishes Mask Sharks Whales Diving Seaweed

Author:Enric Sala

“For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.”

Should Heart Cities Gone Childhood Lonely Hungry Creeks

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.”

Humans Human Beings United Gone Childhood Grew Grew Up Our Children Rough Times Migrate

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

School Faces Gone Childhood Familiar Companion Joyful Being Joyful School Days Familiar Things Familiar Faces

Author:Charles Lamb

“So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.”

Feels Kind Ends Felt Gone Sadness Childhood Havens Summer Green Plant Brands Weary Ponds Firefly End Of Summer

Book:Dry: A Memoir

Source: Dry: A Memoir

“In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”

Writing States Moments Stories Problem Turns Gone Childhood Reader Solutions Refugee Time Passes

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy Returning after having gone out by himself: collapsed by the bed and burst into floods of tears, his face bruised and splattered with blood. ... " I'm Gay," Billy said, "and I've just been beaten up and robbed by a guy who picked me up in a bar and took me back to his place."”

Said Faces Guy Black Rooms Gone Blood Childhood Tears Gay Bed Dear Singers Bars Bullying Flood Beaten Introduction Bruised Homophobic Childhood Friend

Author:Cilla Black

“Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.”

Source: Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione

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