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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'.
Ich habe um meine Kindheit gebeten, und sie ist wiedergekommen, und ich fu« hle, dass sie immer noch so schwer ist wie damals, und dass es nichts genu« tzt hat, a« lter zu werden. I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all. 687
Rainer Maria Rilke— 1910 DieAufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1989).
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))
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.
gordon brown— Statement at Downing Street, 27 June 2007
— Statement outside 10 Downing Street immediately after becoming Prime Minister. The motto referred to is an English translation of the Latin Usque conabor. Brown said "outmost", as spelled on the BBC News transcript, but other sources usually give "utmost".
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.
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
The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.
william mountford— P. 438. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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"
Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.
edmund sears— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 177.
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
In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential — we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today — well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?
Edmund White— Chapter Four (p. 92)
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
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
During the last hundred years parents and teachers have ceased to take childhood and adolescence for granted. They have attempted to fit education to the needs of the child, rather than to press the child into an inflexible educational mould. To this new task they have been spurred by two forces, the growth of the science of psychology, and the difficulties and maladjustments of youth.
Margaret Mead— p.1, Opening of introduction
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
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 22 (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010))
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
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
Buzz Aldrin— American engineer and former astronaut
A pony is a childhood dream, a horse is an adulthood treasure.
Rebecca Carroll— 1001 Best Things Ever Said About Horses, by Steven Price
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
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. * * * * * * The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
samuel woodworth— Samuel Woodworth, The Old Oaken Bucket.
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 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'.
childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain ageThe child is grown, and puts away childish things.childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
edna st. vincent millay— "Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," lines 1-3, from Wine from These Grapes (1934)
