Best childhood & imagination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”

Thinking Firsts Wells Might Today Imagination Memories Childhood Essentials Adults Roots Our Children Extremes Instance Radical Feds Professionalism Eccentricity

Author:Edmund White

“You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.”

Ifs Children Book Ideas Ends Imagination Childhood Honest Endless No Idea Substance Maturity Sections Imaginative

Author:P. L. Travers

“While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”

Children Dream Earth Left Imagination Childhood Holy Wings Spread

Book:The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes

Source: The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes

“... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.”

Ifs Looks Dies Imagination Childhood Scientist Mirrors Artistic Prophet Fishing Cynical Veils Disillusioned Sneer

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.”

Want Has Beens Wanted Imagination Childhood Could Have Been Provinces

Book:Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

“My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.”

Light Age Wanted Young Imagination Childhood Ordinary Scared Active Closets My Imagination Young Age

Author:Stephen King

“People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.”

People World Use Age Happiness Joy Given Imagination Grief Wonderful Childhood Unhappy Bland Happy Childhood Unhappy Childhood

Author:Sue Grafton

“I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.”

World Feels Imagination Secret Doors Childhood Intrigue My Imagination Secret Doors

Author:Richard Armitage

“You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your imagination, and you're supposed to go buy groceries and talk to people at parties and stuff.”

People Writing Stuff Imagination Party Novel Alive Childhood Invisible Groceries

Author:David Foster Wallace

“There's something really special about childhood. When you're a kid, you're at your most creative, and you're very plugged into your imagination and emotions. But when you get older, you're encouraged to dance around your feelings and disengage, and I think it's crucial to fight that.”

Thinking Feelings Kids Fighting Imagination Emotion Creative Childhood Special

Author:Will Sheff

“I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination.”

Real Feelings Waiting Imagination Interesting Successful Childhood Stupid Illness My Imagination

Author:Evie Wyld

“I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.”

Thinking World Children Character Young Easy Voice Imagination Creativity Childhood Creating Very Happy Places To Go Happy Childhood Creating Characters

Author:David Walliams

“For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.”

Way Littles Self Able Lost Imagination Childhood Figures Adventure Self Reliance Reliance Roaming

Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303”

“Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination”

Imagination Childhood

Author:Steve Aylett

“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”

Way Believe Lost Imagination Differences Childhood Adulthood Resignation

Author:Joe Hill

“I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.”

Years Grows Imagination Attitude Childhood Particular Roots Characteristics Realising Savages My Imagination Lilies Figments Compost

Author:Paul O'Grady

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