Best childhood & maturity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.”

Writing Lost Novel Childhood Illusion Expectations Titles Maturity Passages Thrill Clash Great Writers Motifs

Author:Andre Maurois

“Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.”

Long Seems Life Is Next Childhood Periods Reflection Impression Maturity Adolescence

Author:Cesare Pavese

“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

“The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.”

Joy Space Growing Modern Childhood Program Roots Crisis Permanent Maturity Modern Life Space Program Precocious

Author:John Noble Wilford

“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.”

“Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.”

Children Parent Responsibility Childhood Stage Tough Protection Maturity Adolescence Tough Times Personal Responsibility Parental Children And Parents

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.”

Music Childhood Musician Casts Maturity Flood Remembrance Manhood Glamour

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers.”

“What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.”

People Has Beens Different Age Names Individual Wise Heard Childhood Perspective Bears Innocent Old Age Maturity Collectives Dunces

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.”

Should Stories Song Lines Childhood Judgment Tests Maturity Adolescence Manhood Feats Rite Boyhood

Author:Jim Morrison

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

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Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”

Would Be Goal Childhood Ideals Genuine Maturity Mature

Book:Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose

Source: Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose

“But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?”

Feels Doe Made Home Moving Decision Childhood Security Maturity Vastness

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age”

Long Age Pain Passion Pleasure Known Childhood Youth Gains India Innocence Maturity Abandon Ripe Pain And Pleasure Insouciance

Book:The Quintessence of Nehru

Source: The Quintessence of Nehru

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'”

Lost Lines Education Responsibility Childhood Ethics Parenting Educational Maturity Subtle Adulthood Unhappy Childhood Responsibility For Children

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . .”

Life Behinds Our Lives Childhood Television Grew Shapes Grew Up Skins Our Children Leaving Radio Maturity Adolescence Talk Radio

Book:The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made

Source: The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made

“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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