Quotes of: Wonderful-childhood Keyword

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

Robert Webb

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

Demi Lovato

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Stanislav Grof

Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?

I Remain in Darkness

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

It

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Riding the Torch

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

Sleepeth Not, the Bastard

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.

The Mill on the Floss

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

The Midnight Palace

You see yourself as if old and wise. I see you really miss your childhood.

Master of Stupidity

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

NOS4A2

That’s the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.

THE LAST EVE

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.

My Childhood

...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.

Secret Survivors

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

Prose and Poetry

Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.

Unnatural Truth

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

A Winter Haunting

The older I get the more I enjoy my childhood…! ~James A. Murphy

The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

Aimee Bender