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Do you know anyone who wouldsecretly, sincerely, in his innermost selfreally prefer to return to childhood?
— 1980 The Clear Light of Day, ch.1.
and Ireally hopeno white person ever has causetowrite about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
Giovanni, Nikki in full Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr— 1968 Black Judgement,'Nikki-Rosa'.
In my childhood trees were green And there was plenty to be seen. Come back early or never come.
— 1941Plant and Phantom,'Autobiography', l.1-3.
To have even known such a man as he was is an inestimable boon. To have been with him for so long as a child, to have known so intimately the man who above all others has understood childhood, is indeed a memory on which to look back with thanksgiving and with tears.
isa bowman— Page 3 (The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899))
I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.
ken dodd— Quoted in Manchester Evening News, [3]Dodd's Bolton bonus, Natalie Anglesey. (2008-04-28)
Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
marek edelman— "Warsaw Ghetto uprising leader Marek Edelman dies at 90". The Daily Telegraph. 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
I begin with two memories of my childhood. Don't ask me why, because I do not know. Perhaps because it helps to get things started.
saeed akhtar mirza— Ammi:Letter to a Democratic Mother
There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream,And the nightingale sings round it all the day long;In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream,To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
thomas moore— Part II
I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.
bobbejaan schoepen— HUMO, 1964
But this, this which we say before we’re sorry,This which we live behind our unseen faces,Is neither dream, nor childhood, neitherMyth, nor landscape, final, nor finished,For we are incomplete and know no future,And we are howling or dancing out our soulsIn beating syllables before the curtain:We are Shakespearean, we are strangers.
delmore schwartz— "Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers"
Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!
— Mehek Bassi, in Unveiling Our Illusion: New Moon/ Solar Eclipse, 29 April 2014
Anyone who has read Yeats’s wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy’s misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: “When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”
Randall Jarrell— “The Development of Yeats’s Sense of Reality”, p. 89
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world . The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
carl jung— The Theory of Psychoanalysis (1913)
I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.
carl jung— On a phallic dream he had as a young child. p. 14
I wait, but do not know for what or why Or perhaps you are uttering the last bruised sighs, Ignorant of the mystery and of your cries, Of a childhood feeling its frozen gems Being broken off at last amidst its dreams.
stéphane mallarmé— Hérodiade (Hérodiade (1898))
After childhood, the senses specialize via the channels of dominant technologies and social weaponries.
Marshall McLuhan— Letter to The Listener October 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 443
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein— Quoted by Thornton Wilder, interview (December 14-15, 1956) with Richard Goldstone, The Paris Review: Writers at Work, First Series (1958)
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
tom stoppard— Source: Abraham Sutzkever (born 1913), quoted in "Yiddish Poet Celebrates Life with His Language" by Joseph Berger, The New York Times (1985-03-17), Section 1, page 38
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one .
— P. L. Travers, as quoted in Sticks and Stones : The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter (2002) by Jack Zipes
Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion!
— Mehek Bassi, in Unveiling Our Illusion: New Moon/ Solar Eclipse, 29 April 2014
Inquiry denotes evil against the goods of faith , sin denotes evil against the goods of charity and love, and prevarication denotes evil against the truths of faith: in as much as this latter is evil proceeding from a perverse understanding, and is thus known from the truths of faith; it is therefore said, I acknowledge my prevarications. Again ‘Remember thy mercies Jehovah , and thy compassions, remember not the sins of my childhood and my prevarication.
— Pslam xxv,6,7, in "Heavenly Arcana which are in the Sacred Scripture Or Word of the ..., Volume 11", pp.30-31
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
— Søren Kierkegaard, Journal entry (1847)
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
Buzz Aldrin— American engineer and former astronaut
I begin with two memories of my childhood. Don't ask me why, because I do not know. Perhaps because it helps to get things started.
— Ammi:Letter to a Democratic Mother
He more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages.
thomas campbell— Thomas Campbell, A Thought Suggested by the New Year.
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
— Hortense Calisher, Queenie, 1971.
childhood is measured out by sounds and smells And sights, before the dark of reason grows.
— 1960 Summoned By Bells, ch.4.
childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child isgrown, and puts away childish things. childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
edna st. vincent millay— 1934 Wine From These Grapes,'Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies'.
