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“A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.”

Men Virtue Childhood Color Roots Rose Fragrance

Author:Austin O'Malley

“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.”

World Light Passion Seeing Air Childhood Roots Sight Glasses Strikes Core Senses Mask Barriers Foul Volcanoes

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”

Thinking Firsts Wells Might Today Imagination Memories Childhood Essentials Adults Roots Our Children Extremes Instance Radical Feds Professionalism Eccentricity

Author:Edmund White

“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

“Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies.”

People Pleasure Fantasy Childhood Roots Our Children Sexuality Affected Our Thoughts

Author:Ali Sina

“Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.”

Use Pain Childhood Emotional Drug Anxiety Roots Response Alcohol Aggression Symptoms Emotional Pain Traumatic Experiences Later In Life Drug Use Anxiety Depression

Author:Jed Diamond

“My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.”

“My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.”

Past Issues Childhood Personality Roots Insecurity Strongholds

Author:Beth Moore

“We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.”

Soul Character Would Be Childhood Roots Universal Plant Landscape Theme Soil Shallow Hometown

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.”

My Own Music Childhood Roots Musical Soil Buried Fatherhood

Book:Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky. . . . Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars.”

“I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.”

Years Grows Imagination Attitude Childhood Particular Roots Characteristics Realising Savages My Imagination Lilies Figments Compost

Author:Paul O'Grady