Best childhood & tree Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.”

Children Said Play Water White Tree Childhood Fields Clouds Surface Golden Giants Sand Dragons Customs Shore Warning Yellow Floats Dip Daisies Odor Creeks Dandelions Thistles White Clouds

Author:Williston Fish

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.”

Source: The Training Of The Human Plant

“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

“O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!”

World Would Be Grows Trouble Tree Childhood Rivers Blessed Midst Childlike

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.”

Knows Needs Years I Can Use Able Life Is Desire Girl Father Tree Childhood Car Grew Grew Up Cameras Boxes Obsessed Satisfying Persuasion Noticing Gadgets Treasured Motorbike Cool Girl

Author:Amitabh Bachchan

“I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.”

Way Years Firsts Important Games Novel Mystery Tree Childhood Summer Treasure Exotic Mockingbird Kill A Mockingbird

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at some point, I'll wander off by myself. The paradox is that what began in childhood as an act of necessary solitude has led me straight to a life with others, in which I fly to China or Lithuania or northern Minnesota to read my poems and talk with other people who love language made into a lathe on which a life can be tuned and be turned.”

People Way Writing Made Language Silence Tree Childhood Solitude Fruit Winter China Wander Intimate Apples Paradox Joyous Minnesota Apple Trees Lithuania

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.”

Thinking Children Moments Mother Three Courses Tree Childhood Scene My Favorite Seconds Tree Of Life

Author:Paul Auster

“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 spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.”

Littles Bigs Tree Childhood Six Climbs Farms Grandparent Weeping Motorbike Willow Trees Weeping Willows

Author:Miranda Kerr

“I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.”

Knows Country Tree Childhood Singers Farms Pennsylvania Christmas Tree Country Singer Most Random

Author:Taylor Swift

“This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.”

Men Way Years Age Peace Growth Tree Childhood Standing Relation Giants Encounters Standing There Separate Peace Demotion

Book:A Separate Peace

Source: A Separate Peace

“A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.”

Soul Grows Tree Childhood Broken Return Promise Filled Genuine Thread Ruined Bud Springtime New Hope Threads Of Life

Book:Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

Source: Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

“In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees”

Tree Childhood Grew Grew Up Climbing Sage Climbing Trees

Book:Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985

Source: Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985

“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”

People May Remember Names Memories Secret Rich Tree Childhood Flower Summer Bird Seasons Grass Odor Toads

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.”

Stories Tree Childhood Tales Christmas Holiday Cracks Guardian Walnuts Nutcrackers

Author:Vera Nazarian

“(Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.”

Home Reading Fun Tree Childhood Grew Mom Dad Grew Up Clean My Dad My Mom Coming Home Farms Splits Fence Jam Grapes Christmas Tree

Author:Taylor Swift

“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.”

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