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“Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.”

Firsts Children Joy Forever Childhood Sorrow Achievement Mirrors Paint Afterlife Foreground Misadventure

Book:Character

Source: Character

“... 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 If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.”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 like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.”

Firsts Children Childhood Mirrors Misadventure

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"”

Thinking Children Facts Seems Remember Faces Young Parent Common Childhood Terrible Mirrors Shock Helpless Grandparent Young Children Mirror Image

Author:Sam Mendes

“I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.”

Thinking Kind Kids America Teach Happened Childhood Fronts Tvs Mirrors Pretending Accents

Author:India de Beaufort

“Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.”

Humans Children Childhood Creatures Mirrors Leap Exotic Zoos Predicaments

Author:John Updike

“One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.”

Firsts Doe Has Beens Made Joy Destiny Childhood Possibility Mirrors Sensibility Wholeness Bondage

Author:Anais Nin

“I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.”

May Father Parent Childhood Development Mirrors Glimpse

Book:We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse

Source: We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse