ChildHood Quotes
Children see magic because they look for it.
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?
Touch magic. Pass it on.
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.
She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.
Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".
The medium obscured the message.
If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.
Hence, in a season of calm weatherThough inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?
What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?
I wanted to be JUSTICE, LOVE, and the WRATH OF GOD all in one.
The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things
Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.
Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does.
Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.
Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.
Every step towards Education is important, Just like every lighting lamp remove a bit of darkness from this world
To maintain your honesty, one must know to keep alive the spirit of chidhood
I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.
In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.
Let go of what cannot be changed and let love in.
The crazy game of pilling stones was also in you and your friends’ marvelous innovation. And how really hard you would hit the phony big guy who you hated like anything.
You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.
Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.
—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.
The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.
The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.
A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.
In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.
Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.
I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.
It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.
All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.
For all those who believed me, and for all those who didn't. It can't be easy hearingthings that you shouldn't.
Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.
A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.
There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.
Keep your heart wide open and you’ll be received with open hearts — not by everyone, but to be received by one open heart is more than worth the journey.
A woman will always remain as princess as long as she keeps her childhood innocence and goodwill