“Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.” SeemsLastsImpossibleChildhoodTrainingTraditionErrorsRecollectionWoven Author:Brigham Young
“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.” IfsShouldLittlesHappensNamesSpeakRoomsEducationTakenImpossibleChildhoodMissingCryTearsTaughtReadyNeglectOverlooked Author:Sarah Fielding
“Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.” WantChildrenParentLosesImpossibleChildhoodInnocencePurityBottlesPurity And Innocence Author:Pete Docter
“I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.” ChildrenTodayRememberBlackBornMemoriesPovertyImpossibleInfluenceChildhoodPhotographHungerHungryConfusion Author:Gordon Parks
“If I was born into a household with anxiety about money, I wouldn't have had as much freedom to be in my own world. So it's impossible for me to divorce the privilege of my childhood from the other things.” WorldImpossibleChildhoodAnxietyDivorce Author:Zoe Kazan
“I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.” KindDifferentCharacterRealityAgeOpportunityChanceInterestingVisionImpossibleChildhoodPossibilityWindowYour ChildrenSomething InterestingWindow Of Opportunity Author:Daniel Clowes
“I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot.” CharacterBoysImpossibleChildhoodAsk MePretending Author:Rob Corddry
“Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my childhood and adolescence, and that imbues you with two things. First, a hyper-sensitivity to grammar, because a stammerer will have problematic sounds, impossible verbal stumbling blocks. Second, writing is just such a joy when you have a problem with speaking. It's so astonishing to watch language coming out of your pen without any hesitation or dysfluency.” WritingProblemJoyLanguageImpossibleInfluenceChildhoodBlockPensAdolescenceHesitation Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.” WorldDreamBeautifulImpossibleChildhoodRememberedHumaneFablesAiryAdornment Book:The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens Source: The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens
“This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.” KnowsWorldYearsLongBookMomentsDreamFoundLostBornBehindsImpossibleAirChildhoodGrewKissingRiversTraveledMedalDisillusionmentSuspendedImpossible Dream Author:Paulo Coelho
“Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.” LongSeemsDarkImpossibleChildhoodForestsDestinationWhisperingLong Road Book:Sever Source: Sever
“We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there.” KnowsWantGivingYearsStillsIdeasSoulGrowsGrowing UpImpossibleChildhoodCallingGiving UpPrejudiceGuiltInvisibleBuriedLayersNever Giving UpThere Comes A Time Book:The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition