Best childhood & half Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”

“If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.”

“Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.”

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.”

Brain Half Childhood My Family Army Raised Posts Splits Navy Other Half

Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

“My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.”

Years Used Girl Rooms Acting Half Attitude Roles Childhood Eight Ambitious Auditions Standing Out Realised Theatrical My Attitude

Author:Jessie J

“Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.”

Ifs Feelings Would Be Hours Half Wonder Childhood Minutes News Mortality Missiles

Author:Jane Smiley

“I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.”

People Knows Years Mind Wells Two Remember Half Childhood Two Years Recollection Two Year Olds Daguerreotypes

Author:Orson Welles

“Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.”

Should Littles Feelings Form Half Pieces Happened Childhood Events Evening Dimensions Vocabulary Scrap Examining

Book:Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Source: Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.”

Knows Want Looks Joy Girl Three Hours Behinds Half Watches Forever Childhood Sweet Meetings Trauma Bars Jail Childhood Trauma

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward.”

Source: The Society of the Crossed Keys

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.”

Ifs Long Enough Eye Lost Half Childhood Fronts Figures Fields Standing Wave Tiny Spots Horizon Never Let Me Go

Book:Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

“There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn’t turn out half bad either.”

Ifs Thinking Made Turns Half Seeing Childhood Adults Vices Vulnerable Made It Comforting Vice Versa

Author:Vicki Pettersson

“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

“My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.”

People Years Two Sometimes Stories Feelings Half Streets Childhood Rap Magazines Brands Rapper Far Away Burned Old People Thirteen Wartime Magazine Covers Thirteen Year Olds

Author:Jay-Z

“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”

World Believe Half Childhood Cold Capacity Warmth Believe In Me Beaten Gentleness Cold World

Author:Thomas Hardy

“I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...”

World Believe Children Real Play Remember Used Spirit Heaven Common Half Childhood Common Sense Fairy Insightful Balanced Spirit World

Author:Beatrix Potter

“I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .”

Years Opportunity Business Half Careers Childhood Ambition Twenties Investment Investing Boring Spending Bored Odd

Author:Chris Corrigan

“A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality.”

Believe Has Beens Reality Inspiration I Believe Heaven Nature Half Beauty Focus Childhood Everyday Contact Closest True Meaning

Author:Densey Clyne

“My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.”

Made Father Half Childhood Century Half A Century

Author:Antonio Porchia

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