I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.
Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality. . . in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
Dear sweet unforgettable childhood.
Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.
It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!'. . . I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.
We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood. . . who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!
Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr. , Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy.
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.