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“A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us through childhood and parenthood. Tricia Goyer explores her own weaknesses along the journey, revealing her desire to serve the God who forms strength and joy and perseverance within her. A compelling, fresh read.”

Way Looks Book Form Joy Desire Creative Journey Childhood Honest Mom Shapes Weakness Blue Perseverance Hopeful Parenthood Compelling Revealing Relish

Author:Mary E. DeMuth

“The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.”

Humans Mean Growth Brain Childhood Birth Shapes Intense Human Brain

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.”

Knows World Persons Made Stories Found Can Do Existence Childhood Shapes Built Wire Hammers

Author:James Hillman

“The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.”

Character Stories Forget Childhood Shapes Our Children Sacred Landscape Your Children Never Forget Sacred Places

Author:John Dufresne

“Playfulness. We've baked Mallomars and Rice Krispies treats, made milkshakes, and even built a macaron cake in the shape of a Christmas tree. These items remind people of their childhood; we just re-create them with adult flavors.”

People Made Tree Childhood Shapes Adults Built Treats Cake Flavor Items Rice Playfulness Christmas Tree Milkshakes Rice Krispies

Author:David Castle

“I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible sources for poetry. One is dreams, and the other is childhood. I think childhood is an inexhaustible source of your becoming who you will be and certain deep feelings are set inside of you.”

Thinking Way Said Two Feelings Dream Certain Childhood Source Becoming Shapes Very Deep Deep Feeling

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”

Mind Heart Life Is Desire Courses Childhood My Heart Shapes Conscience Pressure Determined Backgrounds

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.”

Looks Different Childhood Shapes Giants Recycling Tuna

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“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

“There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.”

Humans Feelings Strong Childhood Emotional Shapes Response Hills Valleys Associates Triggers Evoke Roller Coaster Coasters Cinematic Strong Feeling Emotional Response Hills And Valleys

Author:Diablo Cody