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“I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.”

Thinking Knows Men Mind Children Night Sleep Childhood Where You Are Going To Sleep Where You Are Going

Author:Hank Snow

“Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]”

Reason Sleep Childhood

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.”

Believe Children Bigs Able Faces Bits Sleep Childhood Dog Stones Wake Up Longing Glasses Nostalgia Treasure Sugar Dread Shells Going To Sleep Fear Not Morrow Fear Nothing Maple

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.”

Writing Made Book Stories Night Waiting Dark My Own Sleep Behinds Childhood Sitting Hated Ran Adulthood Made Up Stories

Author:Anne Tyler

“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”

Children Reason Sleep Childhood

Book:Emile

Source: Emile

“Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram. The rigors of learning how to do long division have been a traditional part of childhood, just like learning to smoke. In fact, as far as I am concerned, the two go hand in hand. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.”

People Wells Children Long Doe Has Beens Two Facts Hands Sleep Childhood Demand Capable Deserve Concerned Traditional Smoke Division Hand In Hand Unconsciousness Rigor

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.”

“It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.”

People Thinking Knows Want Giving Years Hours Sleep Laughing Childhood Cry Arms Harder Just One More Time Good Thoughts

Author:Robert Fulghum

“Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.”

Source: Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books

“Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood.”

Ifs Men Believe Hands Age Fall Sleep Childhood Training Eight Tenacity

Author:Milan Kundera

“After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.”

Ifs Sleep Fate Childhood Middle Walking Adults Tired Hunger Unexpected Replaced Middle Aged

Book:A Gate at the Stairs

Source: A Gate at the Stairs

“Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.”

Needs Mean Children Sleep Childhood Fronts Bears Terrible Bed Adults Command Confession Humiliation Stigma

Book:The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past

Source: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past

“I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.”

Men Long Lying Sleep Sky Childhood Scene Creator Grass Creator God

Author:John Clare

“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil”

Giving Eye Purpose Sleep Childhood Devil Give Me Daggers Lady Macbeth Macbeth Conflict Macbeth Sleep

Author:William Shakespeare