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“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”

World Years Values Next Loses Forever Childhood Months Losing Absolutes Next Year Permanence

Author:Graham Greene

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”

Source: Road Novels 1957-1960

“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.”

Years Heart Children Spirit Grows Memories Childhood And Love Christmas Holiday Childhood Memories Kindred Christmas Spirit Inspirational Christmas Christmas Day Merry Christmas Christmas Holiday Christmas Tree Funny Christmas Xmas Christmas Thoughts Best Christmas Christmas Love Holiday Season Christmas Season Christmas Card Christmas Magic Christmas Time Short Christmas Holiday Traditions Religious Christmas Christmas Card Greetings Christmas Holiday Greetings Funny Christmas Card Christmas Joy Funny Merry Christmas Christian Christmas Meaning Of Christmas Christmas Song Best Holiday Christmas Greetings Merry Christmas Cards Christmas Cheer Inspirational Holiday Tender Hearts Christmas Peace Great Christmas Merry Christmas Greetings Warm Christmas Holiday Card Holiday Spirit Meaningful Christmas Positive Holiday Christmas Friendship Religious Holiday Classic Christmas Holiday Greeting Card Merry Xmas Funny Children Christmas Great Holiday Holiday Love Holiday Cheer Memories And Love

Book:Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom

“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

“It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.”

People Thinking Knows Want Giving Years Hours Sleep Laughing Childhood Cry Arms Harder Just One More Time Good Thoughts

Author:Robert Fulghum

“Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.”

Years Long Form Opinion Childhood

Book:Green Mars

Source: Green Mars

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

Men Needs Years Littles Soul States Reason Mother Animal Childhood Century Pure Eternity Twenties Structure Maturity Instant Thirty Vegetables Womb Early Childhood

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It’s still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I’m fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing there’s one thing I haven’t told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.”

Way Years Believe Stills Happens Knowing One Thing Air Sky Childhood Havens Changed Spring Okay Miracle Seven Breathe Fifty I Smile I Have Changed Miracles Can Happen

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“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

“This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.”

Knows World Years Long Book Moments Dream Found Lost Born Behinds Impossible Air Childhood Grew Kissing Rivers Traveled Medal Disillusionment Suspended Impossible Dream

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.”

Years Childhood Twilight Sinking

Author:Shan Sa

“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.”

“Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”

Source: The Things They Carried

“She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

“Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.”

Thinking Knows Want Years States Enough Girl Fate Risk Childhood Danger Right Now Constant Denial Sexism Mexican Girlhood Colored Girls

Author:Bell Hooks

“Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.”

“Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.”

People Years Ends Country Sound Half Clear Childhood Forgotten Landscape Remembered Episodes Looking Back Scent Telescopes Misty

Book:Listening Valley

Source: Listening Valley

“My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.”

People Years Two Sometimes Stories Feelings Half Streets Childhood Rap Magazines Brands Rapper Far Away Burned Old People Thirteen Wartime Magazine Covers Thirteen Year Olds

Author:Jay-Z

“After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.”

“Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.”

Ifs Years Whole Wanted Lasts Courses Numbers Childhood Years Ago Foundation Accepted I Realized Stable Falsehood Large Numbers Doubtful Edifice Demolish

Author:Rene Descartes

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?”

Years Father Parent Sadness Childhood Loneliness Waste Rage Injury Survivor Reign Wrecks Parents Marriage

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.”

Years Firsts Light Darkness Childhood Seven Divides Seven Years Light And Darkness

Author:Robert Carlyle

“Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.”

Years Long School Choices Names Five Four Childhood Needed Late Twenties University Affair Forgotten Thirty Five Years Teens Leavers

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥”

Years Lasts Remember Memories Childhood Lifetime Happy Memories

Author:Susan Branch

“I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.”

“I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .”

Years Opportunity Business Half Careers Childhood Ambition Twenties Investment Investing Boring Spending Bored Odd

Author:Chris Corrigan

“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”

Life Years Friendship Childhood Inspirational Life Months Adults Bounds Substitutes Steel New Friends

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”

“There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.”

Years Home Memories Childhood Higher Stronger Connected Good Memories

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.”

Years Children Littles Mother Interesting Childhood Daughter Tragedy Complaining Complaints Garlands Great Tragedy

Author:Liza Minnelli

“Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And only once is he mentioned: when he was twelve years of age and he started arguing with the priests in the temple - that's all. Then there is a gap of eighteen years... nothing is mentioned.”

Years Said Age Jesus Christ Records Childhood Jesus Christ Arguing Preparation Temples Priests Gaps Twelve Eighteen

Author:Rajneesh

“For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries.”

“Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.”

Giving Years I Can Book Answers Childhood Fatherhood

Author:Beverly Cleary

“Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.”

“We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there.”

Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

“Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.”

Years Children Night Childhood Missing Your Children Strain

Author:Joe Scarborough

“Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Giving Years Firsts Play Reality Pain Accepting Wonder Childhood Bears Needed Giving Up First Time Conclusion Drag Connecting Unhealthy Resigning

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.”

Years Grows Imagination Attitude Childhood Particular Roots Characteristics Realising Savages My Imagination Lilies Figments Compost

Author:Paul O'Grady

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