Childhood Quotes — Page 28

Novelist, Philosopher

“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

People Long Childhood

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.”

Children Views Childhood

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

“Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?”

Childhood Quiet

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

“Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.”

Life Color

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.”

World Childhood Miracle

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Gordon Brown

Politician

“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.”

People School Childhood

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Gunter Grass

Novelist

“My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.”

Mother Childhood Thumbs

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.”

Way Childhood Long Ago

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Lewis Carroll

Author, Mathematician

“All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!”

Gay Childhood Sadness

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Lewis Thomas

Physician, Author

“It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.”

Childhood Female Males

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Henry Reed

Poet, Educator

“What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.”

Fall Sleep Childhood

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”

Choices Childhood My Birthday

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