“In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.” WorldAbleSpiritReligionUniverseKnownMorningChildhoodAdventureRationalCertaintyYour ChildrenEagerness Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.” ThinkingHumansKindGodSeemsSpiritUniverseWhiteChildhoodProjectsConceptsFemaleEssenceProfoundMalesCreatorDebateRidiculousBeardOmnipotentIndescribableChapelOmniscientDepictionSistine Chapel Book:Living Faith Source: Living Faith
“You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe it! Every comic and most of the actors I know had a childhood full of love. Then they grew up and found out that in the grown-up world, you don't get all that love, you just get your share. So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveChildrenShowsUniverseActorsFoundKnownShareChildhoodLove YouGrewGrew UpComicShow BusinessCenter Of The Universe Author:Mel Brooks
“That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.” LooksKindMayWarSoulDoneShowsJobsUniverseStarsBehindsChildhoodEthicsAestheticDo It YourselfGet The Job Done Author:Adam Savage
“The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system. Once you've seen it that way, it always seems that way.” ThinkingWaySeemsUniverseChurchMoralChildhood Author:George Saunders
“Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.” WorldWayBookUniverseReadingChildhoodRemainsSouthChanging The WorldPower Of WordsPassportsTravel The WorldBronx Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you were making false models of the universe. Everything is kind of irrational and poetic then.” ThinkingKindLongRememberUniverseChildhoodPoetPoeticIrrational Author:Guy Maddin
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.” BookWholeMomentsUniverseSecretChildhoodReaderPagesAliensInstantConfusedSpokesStringsThat MomentGave UpEarly ChildhoodCiphers Author:Alberto Manguel
“Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.” PeopleWorldFirstsJoyUniverseKnowingChildhoodTalesFairyFairy TaleImmense Author:Paulo Coelho
“Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.” IfsMindFirstsKindDifferentHardWholeMomentsFormScienceUniverseHurtFireChildhoodRocksMajorsLogicOur ChildrenFingersVariousConvictionMathCertaintyEncountersSunriseIt HurtsConvincingChordsPersonal ExperiencesTheoremsRight Moment Author:Philip Pullman