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“We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.”

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Book:Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)

Source: Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)

“According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.”

“The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.”

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Book:The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

“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

“The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.”

Space Childhood Protected Time And Space

Author:Mary Pipher

“That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”

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Book:Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings

Source: Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings

“Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”

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Book:Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century

Source: Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century

“You must have had such a great childhood with a man like that for your father. (Delphine) Yeah. All puppy dogs and rainbows and those weird furry people with padded coat hangers on their heads that look like space aliens on acid. (Jericho)”

People Men Looks Father Space Childhood Dog Yeah Aliens Rainbow Coats Acid Puppy Puppy Dog Jericho Furry Hangers Space Aliens Coat Hangers

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.”

Moving Force Space Cities Practice Childhood Built Silent Architecture Repeats Joyful Calculations Great Cities Kandinsky

Author:Michel de Certeau

“If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.”

Ifs Space Poverty Childhood Hunger Hungry Conquer World Hunger Ending Hunger Hunger Awareness

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.”

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Author:Valentina Tereshkova