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“I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.”

Mother Enemy Forever Childhood Garden Moses

Author:Anita Diament

“I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.”

Parent Nice Childhood Summer Garden Dishes Daddy Washing Really Nice Allowance Great Parents Washing Dishes

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.”

Beautiful Childhood Garden Our Children Gardening

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”

Years Running Kids Fall House Water Poor Childhood Garden Hot Our Children Raised Humble Meat Milk Cows Hog Hot Water Bathtubs Running Water

Author:Phil Robertson

“My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.”

Years Children Black Childhood Changed Ego Garden Horse Storm Jumping Alter Ego Bamboo

Author:Romola Garai

“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”

World Age Games Childhood Findings Garden Experience Dull Twelve Restlessness

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.”

World Different Whole Felt Religious Saws Streets Childhood Garden Contradiction Different Worlds

Author:Rula Jebreal

“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”

Children Childhood Garden Ceremony

Book:Winter garden

Source: Winter garden

“She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.”

Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

“Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.”

Persons Has Beens Childhood Garden Touched Wildflowers Flower Garden Untamed

Author:Lady Bird Johnson