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“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.”

Pain Joy Spirit Left Sound Loses Hurt Our Lives Growing Risk Tree Crazy Childhood Dog Cry Wind Calling Okay Paint Curious Climbs Bike Wipe Vigorous Joy And Pain Hedgerows

Author:Peter Heller

“I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.”

Feels Looks Might Moving Easy Bits Sound Childhood Keys Majors Musical Piano Minors Musical Experience

Author:Andrew W.K.

“If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.”

People Ifs Stills Moments Feelings Dream Light Remember Sound Quality Childhood Emotional Particular Essentials Draws Unusual Recalls Fooled Still Life

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.”

School Sound Teacher Childhood Fellows Conversion Sunday Assured Early Childhood Sunday School

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.”

Knows Different Home Sound Term Childhood Broken Our Children Broken Homes

Author:Bucky Sinister

“I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.”

Knows Doe Bigs Culture Sound Black Childhood Being True Accents Admitting Black Culture Black Music

Author:Moshe Kasher

“All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.”

Sound Emotion One Thing Childhood Your Children Related

Author:Eyvind Kang

“But Stacie Orrico was my childhood hero. I was about 12 when I found her music. She is a contemporary Christian artist, and I can honestly tell you that I don't think I'd have a soulful voice if I didn't listen to Stacie. I wanted to sound just like her growing up, and to this day I STILL think I sound a little bit like her. But she is AMAZING!”

“My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.”

Ifs Real Turns Father Names Sound Numbers Childhood Son Calling Pressure Stuck Staring My Son Seventies Syllables Toddler Duncan Joey

Author:David Bowie

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

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Book:Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies

“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”

Children Reason Grows Sound Hours Dark Childhood Sight Smell Childhood Memories Dark Hours

Author:John Betjeman

“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.”

“Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.”

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Book:Listening Valley

Source: Listening Valley

“In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”

“Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was so long in the outer brightness, I am not used to this upheaval: Being at home in my own soul, Never to be led elsewhere. I want nothing, I long for nothing, I hum gently the sounds of childhood, And I reach home astounded In the warm beauty of dreams. Heart, how torn you are, How blessed to plow down blindly, To think nothing, to know nothing, Only to breathe, only to feel.”

“It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.”

Use Sound Childhood Ideals Beach

Author:Miranda Richardson