“This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.” BookIdeasKidsChildhoodTraditionRegardClassicChasingThis Is A BookVermeer Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.” RomanceFeltPleasurePiecesChildhoodGeniusDespairDegreesJudgmentPerformancesRegardReceivingExaltedTrifling Author:Edmund Burke
“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.” IfsPersonsGivenMemoriesMy OwnPleasureChildhoodTalentFashionPoetProductsSourceHigherSorrowShadowRegardSacredDearPossessionTemptationAliensDelicateInclinationSpoilHigher Power Author:Hermann Hesse
“We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.” ThinkingWantGivingFeelsChildrenDifferentPlayNamesOur LivesChildhoodStageOughtEvidenceRegardTalesPreservesFairySomething NewDivisionFairy TaleFairytaleBrevityPedanticBrevity Of Life Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it - the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.” IfsMenMindLongBookReadingBeliefSinCompanyDoubtAtheismChildhoodMankindTaughtRegardDown AndAriseDisturbing Book:Lectures and Essays, by the Late William Kingdon Clifford Source: Lectures and Essays, by the Late William Kingdon Clifford
“I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.” WorldHeartEyeCitiesChildhoodMy HeartGloryRegardSpotsFranceParisFriendlyRebelOrnamentsGreat CitiesWarts Author:Michel de Montaigne