Famous Quotes About Childhood By Reference

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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Childhood
2

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Childhood
3

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Ambrose Bierce

Childhood
4

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

William Wordsworth

Childhood
5

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Thornton Wilder

Childhood
6

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

Thomas Traherne

Childhood
7

Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

Leonard Cohen

Childhood
8

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Virginia Woolf

Childhood
9

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

John Milton

Childhood
10

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

Childhood
11

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Deepak Chopra

Childhood
12

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Meister Eckhart

Childhood
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Pablo Picasso

Childhood

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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.