Best childhood & strange Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.”

Thinking Fighting Courses Parent Fantasy Saws Childhood Strange Spy

Author:Angelina Jolie

“All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.”

Would Be Remember Childhood Changed Strange Vague New Experiences Monotony Lapses

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“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.”

Light Night Memories Space Quality Darkness Clear Childhood Strange Scene Areas Rings Fixed Candle Childhood Memories Acres Illuminating

Book:The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

“And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.”

Firsts Children Body Water Watches Wonderful Childhood Strange Keys Sorrow Discovery First Time Experience Clean Everyday Surface Familiar Piano Shock Spontaneity Primal Piano Keys

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific andtorturous, involving and utterly tedious, all at the same time. The world is full of women made to feel strange because what everyone assumes comes naturally is so difficult to do--never mind to do well.”

World Feels Mind Wells Made Stills Jobs Difficult Childhood Strange Demand Assuming Motherhood Terrific Involving Tedious

Author:Anna Quindlen

“When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read it in the script and I'd always be struck by what I'd just done and what we were doing, and that this was my childhood hero and I was writing his death.”

Way Writing Done Moments Dies Process Childhood Emotional Strange Hero Scripts Kirk

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.”

“People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?”

People Thinking Feels Trying Years Children Persons Sometimes Seems Certain Happened Childhood Strange Stranger Aliens Alienation Decipher

Author:Gunter Grass

“Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.”

World Feels Feelings Childhood Youth Strange Skins Connected Selfishness Uncomfortable Narcissism Really True

Author:Jason Reitman

“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.”

“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

“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.”

Seems Space Week Childhood Strange Sorrow Summer Wings Bitter Wings To Fly

Book:Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century

Source: Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century

“This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.”

Years Girl Quality Boys Childhood Strange Twenties Dreamer Distinguished Eccentric Brothels

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.”

Knows Important Facts Next Forever Knowing Childhood Strange Adults Lays Substance Ran Unusual Chapters Exceptional Mist Next Chapter Knowing Things Strange Days

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart

“Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the mother protects. But there are many people, millions of them, who never grow beyond their childhoods. They remain stuck somewhere, and they still need a father and a mother. Hence God is called the Father or the Mother. They need a divine Father to protect them; they are not mature enough to be on their own. They need some security.”

People Men World Want Needs Stills Enough Mother Father Grows Millions Childhood Security Divine Strange Protect Safe Stuck Secure Mature Strange World

Author:Rajneesh

“It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.”

World Should Has Beens Seems Would Be Science Courses Next Hours History Generations Childhood Strange Obvious Improvement Extras Adopted Next Generation Daylight

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

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