“Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.” YearsWellsWholeMotherClassChildhoodGrewGrew UpDancerBalletDance Class Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.” PeopleNeedsWellsChildrenAgeCausesLosesTroubleChildhoodMiddleMountainGainsFingersOld AgeBehaveDesperateConformOld PeopleMiddle AgesHalfwayRecklessIrresponsibleCursedFoolhardy Book:Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life
“There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.” WellsRememberVoiceChildhoodMotherhoodTalesToneFairyFairy TaleSweetest Book:The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover Source: The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover
“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.” IfsWayMindWellsPlayHandsStreetsChildhoodExampleBearsBeatsBaseballPolicePrisonDictatorshipAdolescenceRepression Author:Daniel Ortega