“When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.” WorldKindFeelingsKidsUsedChildhoodPerceptionHungChaoticHallucinationsApparitionsPerception Of The World Author:Jim Woodring
“Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.” MadeUsedGamesWinningChildhoodDadMy DadMade ItNutsMum Author:Lee Westwood
“No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it.” Has BeensUsedHurtWorryChildhoodScaredKicksGetting Hurt Author:Dante Hall
“Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.” IfsWorldInspirationalGivingChildrenMomentsFeelingsUsedNightExistenceMagicChildhoodCreationAdultsMiracleRoseAstonishingMagic Of Childhood Author:Eugene Ionesco
“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryRememberRomanceUsedDiesPassionHalfBoysPovertyWonderfulSeaChildhoodIgnoranceMiseryUnhappyTreatedConfusedSuperstitionsAutobiographyLittle BoysEccentricityShabbyYeatsAnachronism Author:Randall Jarrell
“You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.” WorldLongDoeFeelingsLastsUsedBloodChildhoodHarderTrackInnocenceMileage Author:Martin Amis
“Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.” KnowsHumansKindHas BeensRealUsedCertainExistenceQualityStepsDoorsChildhoodFoodLateBeatsCookingWarmSmellFatsSmokingAutumnCulinaryThroatSpoonsAutumn Days Author:Kathryn Hughes
“In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.” YearsTwoHomeLastsUsedChildhoodEveningChairsSheepCornHelpersPipersShearer Author:Lady Gregory
“Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.” FeelsUsedAcceptingChildhoodShameEdgesHospitalsAlcoholismEmbarrassment Author:Augusten Burroughs
“I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.” RealUsedHouseBoysStudyChildhoodMamaBible StudyChoirMischievousHappy ChildhoodMama's Boy Author:Woody Harrelson
“I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat.” SchoolUsedWhiteChildhoodStudentsPaperCelebrateConstructionHalloweenYoungstersDecorationElementary SchoolHappy Childhood Author:Dave Barry
“In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids in classes and the teachers would make it a point that I was the entertainer of the class, but only after high school and in college that I started doing theater and acting classes, because I thought it would be fun.” ShowsWould BeKidsSchoolUsedFunActingClassTeacherChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolTheaterPerformersEntertainersPuppetsEarly ChildhoodActing ClassesAfter High SchoolPuppet Shows Author:Michael Jai White
“Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.” IfsKnowsFeelsShouldYearsSaidMightUsedSidesDoubtChildhoodLonelinessCreaturesFairsLonelyOur ChildrenClockEaseKneesSatFancyPensTwelveEldersGloomFlocksMeekChristmas EveEmbersKneelingOxen Book:Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition Source: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.” FeelsUsedPurposeDifficultGrowingChildhoodUsed To BeGrowing OldGrowing Older Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.” I CanUsedBornChildhoodKeysWombCollectingCollectors Author:Micah Lexier
“I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.” IfsKidsUsedPartyChildhoodSittingTablesCrownsAnticipateAnnualsBirthday PartyCoronation Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.” WritingTwoBookPlayHandsSchoolUsedWrittenChildhoodWorkersMagazinesCapitalist Author:John Lennon
“My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.” YearsUsedGirlRoomsActingHalfAttitudeRolesChildhoodEightAmbitiousAuditionsStanding OutRealisedTheatricalMy Attitude Author:Jessie J
“Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.” PeopleFeelsShouldWritingHelpingKidsJobsUsedParentRealizingNumbersChildhoodCallingTaxesStoresFasterYour ChildrenAviationCopiesEmbarrassingMechanicCollectingHomeworkAccountingIrsDiscountsWriting PoetryAuditors Author:James Hillman
“I used to watch 10 hours of television a night, my entire childhood. And I don't think it did all good things to me. I certainly still have social problems that are a result of being in my room alone too much.” ThinkingStillsProblemUsedNightSocialHoursRoomsResultsWatchesToo MuchChildhoodTelevisionGood ThingsSocial Problems Author:Judd Apatow
“My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with little figures.That whole thing [shooting is] about trying to create a world - there's something very connected to childhood and reverie and daydreaming and fantasy.” WorldTryingLittlesCountryWholeUsedHouseFantasyChildhoodFiguresMomMy MomConnectedOur CountryShootingDaydreamingReverieMiniaturesCountry Houses Author:Gregory Crewdson
“There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks and comments from those around me on how remote my life was from my age. Therefore I rapidly lost all my respect for age. From then on, I always lived without any age, given that every year I used to repudiate it, choosing another one for the sole good reason that I liked it better.” YearsReasonAgeRememberUsedLostGivenChildhoodProfoundIntenseMelancholyCommentSoleRemarksExplosions Author:Domenico Gnoli
“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.” WayMindChildrenRealYoungUsedJoyFreedomOpinionSunImagineChildhoodWindFlowerBecomingOceanUnderstoodUsed To BeInnocenceBeing RealJoyfulYoung ChildrenBeing FreeReal YouBeing A Kid Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” LifeShouldWellsBodyDeathUsedJourneyChildhoodAdventureInspirational LifeTravelSafetySuicideIntentionCloudsGravesSmokeLife ChangingWowRidingWornTraveledPreservationHuntersMotorcycleLoathingArrivingSelf PreservationTravel AdventureWorn OutAdventure And TravelLife Is An AdventureBikersWhat Is LifeProclaimingGonzoLife AdventureAdventure And LifeWant To TravelLife Well LivedLife And TimeFear And LoathingFinaleYou Only Live OnceHarleyOne Life To LiveLiving Life WellAdventurous LifeGonzo JournalismPrettinessGreat JourneysMotorcycle Riding Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“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.” IfsWorldFeelsHas BeensDifferentPastFacesUsedActorsSleepChildhoodStrangeShadowLaysSensationsAfternoonComing OutRecallsSweetnessBroadwayDifferent WorldsBittersweetOverlookedSlippingSleeping In Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard
“I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...” WorldBelieveChildrenRealPlayRememberUsedSpiritHeavenCommonHalfChildhoodCommon SenseFairyInsightfulBalancedSpirit World Author:Beatrix Potter
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWantFeelsHeartLongSoulHomeDreamUsedSoundMy OwnTreeChildhoodBlessingSummerRainBlessedWarmBreatheLovelySatisfiedElsewhereTornBrightnessUpheavalAstoundedSummer Rain Author:Hermann Hesse
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .” IfsWellsEarthUsedTimeChildhoodFlowerSpringFingersCome UpTinyGrassSat Book:The Mill on the Floss Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.” LongSchoolUsedPayChildhoodCenturyLibraryExperimentsMarijuanaContrastProhibitionEarly ChildhoodSchool LibraryEarly Childhood Education Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks” UsedHouseFantasyChildhoodTownsFatherhoodSmall TownHistoric Author:Patty Duke