“I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.” IfsThinkingChildrenPassionMillionsSuccessfulChildhoodHarderInevitableAdoptionDnaInfancyUnrequitedChildren LoveEarly Childhood Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation.” PlayFactsPassionThreeWifeChildhoodJokesCrossesRemainsSeriesDelightAppearanceFatsDespiteBetrayToysGrandfatherPausesGrandchildrenExesDeprivationGiggleStiflingEx WifeProstheticsBad JokesHis Ex Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.” WorldGivingTryingChildrenAgeSchoolPassionSecretFailingChildhoodGiving UpEightDrawingNineSymbolsRealisticInstructionRealismSymbolicEarly Childhood Author:Betty Edwards
“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryRememberRomanceUsedDiesPassionHalfBoysPovertyWonderfulSeaChildhoodIgnoranceMiseryUnhappyTreatedConfusedSuperstitionsAutobiographyLittle BoysEccentricityShabbyYeatsAnachronism Author:Randall Jarrell
“The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.” WorldLightPassionSeeingAirChildhoodRootsSightGlassesStrikesCoreSensesMaskBarriersFoulVolcanoes Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.” BookBigsPassionGrowsGrowing UpPlayerChildhoodBaseballThirdsCardsComicGradesComic BookMy PassionCollectingFanaticsBaseball PlayerThird GradeBaseball Cards Author:Alan Ritchson
“He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.” HardGovernmentWantedPassionNamesStudyChildhoodBallsBatsCricketGovernment Service Author:Bill Vaughan
“I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.” WritingTryingHas BeensBookMatterPassionChildhoodPaintCommunicateDrawingColourIllustratingDoodling Author:Devdutt Pattanaik
“My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.” MotherSongPassionChildhoodSingingFilledTraditional Author:Ofra Haza
“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.” PeopleWayNeedsTwoDifferentHelpingPassionFunChildhoodTypePercentAreasThirdsAddictionDefinitionsIllnessTraumaPunishmentMental IllnessSevereBetter WaysCoping Author:Maia Szalavitz
“Since my childhood, I saw my elder brothers playing cricket and that is what built my passion around it. I was enrolled in school but all my attention was on cricket.” SchoolPassionAttentionSawsChildhoodBrotherBuiltCricketEldersMy PassionPlaying Cricket Author:Shahid Afridi
“I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.” BookKidsPassionReadingChildhoodSpecialLuckyAppreciateReading Books Author:Rebecca Stead
“Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.” HumansPassionHuman BeingsCreativityChildhoodYouthMarriedAdultsInnocentBeing MarriedSpontaneity Book:The Courage to Create Source: The Courage to Create
“Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.” YearsHumansMomentsAgeLastsDesireNightPassionBornHuman BeingsSilenceChildhoodListeningOld AgeUncertainLifelongMomentaryFlux Author:C. S. Lewis
“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” LongAgePainPassionPleasureKnownChildhoodYouthGainsIndiaInnocenceMaturityAbandonRipePain And PleasureInsouciance Book:The Quintessence of Nehru Source: The Quintessence of Nehru
“I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.” IfsUsePassionLostLosesGriefChildhoodTearsBreathsSaintTheeVowSonnetAfter DeathLove PoemsFamous LoveWedding CeremonyWedding VowWedding PoetryDepth Of LoveLove VowsBest-love-poems .Famous Love PoemWedding Blessings Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning