Best childhood & return 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

“As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.”

“In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.”

Order Childhood Mankind Produce Source Return Originals Something New New You

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.”

Country Childhood Youth Return Bears Remains Tales Agents Fairy Comparison Fairy Tale Traveler Recollection Early Childhood

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?”

Want Feels Kind Long Has Beens Certain Father Stuff Interesting Childhood Return Drama Elements Long Time Get Away Exhausted Long Time Ago Family Drama

Author:Sam Shepard

“Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?”

Knows Self Childhood Return Do You Know Sincerely

Author:Anita Desai

“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”

People Persons Country Certain Individual Taken Happened Childhood Return Siege Under Siege

Book:Black Dreams

Source: Black Dreams

“My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.”

Mind Childhood Taught Return Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Elena Roger

“I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.”

Thinking May Children Made Past Remember Grows Childhood Return Promise Clarity Infatuation Childish Things

Author:Lauren Faust

“I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.”

Knows Children Care Young Pay Quality Focus Childhood Return Resources Investment Rate Health Care Young Children High Quality Dividends Betting Early Childhood

Author:J.B. Pritzker

“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs”

Quality Economic Childhood Development Return Taxes Research Program Dollars Investment Extraordinary High Quality Early Childhood Tax Dollars Return On Investment

Author:Robert Greenwald

“In tough economic times, we have to make every dollar count, and studies have shown a return of up to $17 for every dollar invested in early childhood.”

Study Economic Childhood Return Tough Dollars Early Childhood Tough Economic Times

Author:Shakira

“Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.”

Childhood Return Strategy Investing Nutrition Early Childhood

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“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

“A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.”

Soul Grows Tree Childhood Broken Return Promise Filled Genuine Thread Ruined Bud Springtime New Hope Threads Of Life

Book:Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

Source: Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

“Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.”

“Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality. -Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt”

Real Dream Reality Seems Romance Memories Childhood Objects Return Quiet Endure Affection Our Dreams Aunt Whitney

Author:Judith McNaught

“She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return home once more, to the wild forest and the land of mystic tales and ancient spirits whence he had taken her. That was the place of her heart, and if he loved her, he must let her go.”

Ifs Heart Home Spirit Taken Land Childhood Brother Return Ancient Tales Forests Mystic Let Her Go

Author:Juliet Marillier

“Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.”

Matter Helping Home Remember Courses Ability Sacrifice Childhood Conditions Talent Return Gratitude Fortune Helping Others Pleasant Good Fortune Harmonious Another Life Home Life

Author:Albert Schweitzer

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