Best childhood & our-lives Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.”

People Firsts Children Facts Love Is Emotion Our Lives Childhood Dog Return Unique Remains Lasting

Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.”

Pain Joy Spirit Left Sound Loses Hurt Our Lives Growing Risk Tree Crazy Childhood Dog Cry Wind Calling Okay Paint Curious Climbs Bike Wipe Vigorous Joy And Pain Hedgerows

Author:Peter Heller

“None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.”

Years Firsts May Evil Pieces Our Lives Childhood Youth Flower Broken Casts Lovely Immortality Intangible Ivory Mould Odor Remnants Lovely Things

Book:A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

“No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.”

Past Remember Mother Forget Our Lives Childhood Praying Our Future Aunt Infancy Early Childhood Forget The Past

Book:Rubyfruit Jungle

Source: Rubyfruit Jungle

“We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.”

Years Remember Nations Our Lives Childhood Fabulous

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.”

“We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.”

“All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be ... one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood.”

People Stories Seems Acting Growing Up Our Lives Growing Fans Childhood Tvs Huge Doctors Inspired Massive Doctor Who

Author:David Tennant

“Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.”

“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”

Firsts Together Suffering Loss Grief Our Lives Childhood Return Periods Anguish Early Childhood

Book:A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

Source: A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

“Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.”

Firsts States Our Lives Childhood Conditions Appropriate Phases

Book:Theological investigations

Source: Theological investigations

“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”

Ifs Way Ideas Different Ends Dream Turns Destiny Our Lives Fate Plans Childhood Expected Height Providence Routes Our Dreams Riddle

Book:Astonishing the Gods

Source: Astonishing the Gods

“If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.”

Ifs Enough Beautiful Fall Memories Our Lives One Thing Childhood Lucky Falling In Love Meals Love Life Childhood Memories Boyhood Icing

Book:Trinity

Source: Trinity

“For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.”

Way Stories Form Pieces Our Lives Childhood Glasses Echoes Rhyme Shattered Refrain Making Up Monologues Kaleidoscope Recurrence

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.”

World Long Whole Stories Earth Form Life Is Individual Greater Our Lives Mystery Childhood Movement Expression Seasons Harmony Limitation Parenthood Gravity Individual Life Maleness

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?”

Knows Our Lives Childhood Expected Insanity Only Time Childhood Memories Did You Know

Book:Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel

Source: Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel

“All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there.”

Home Remember House Our Lives Childhood Determine Delight Neighborhood Our Thoughts Laboratory Fashionable Downtrodden

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn’t even true at the time—love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.”

Ifs Want Mind Mean Feelings School Suffering Strong Memories Powerful Emotion Our Lives Childhood Regret Nostalgia Guilty Deceiving Recollection Old School Time Love Strong Emotions

Author:Julian Barnes

“The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.”

Stories Remember Our Lives Childhood

Author:Stephen King

“The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don't expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don't.”

Men Self Reason Our Lives Childhood Achieve Position Gender Fulfilling Stereotype Gender Stereotypes

Book:Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Source: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“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

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