Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.
Oh, haggard mind, groping darkly through the past incapable of detaching itself from the miserable present dragging its heavy chain of care through imaginary feasts and revels, and scenes of awful pomp seeking but a moment's rest among the long-forgotten haunts of childhood, and the resorts of yesterday and dimly finding fear and horror everywhere
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life... But in the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wa
I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, ... I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Lack of physical activity is a major problem here on childhood obesity. And, in fact, the industry is heavily involved in special programs to educate parents and children about the need for good nutrition and physical activity.
I had a marvelously happy childhood.
I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
She was a legend in her time. The issue of childhood obesity seems so current now, but imagine what it was like in the 1960s when she sought funding for such studies. She had foresight into a growing problem.
If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.
And what's a life - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
The epidemic of childhood obesity is frightening. We hope that giving kids someone to look up to and root for will encourage them to make changes in their own lives.
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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.
because she's one of the few female figures in contemporary film to not only have successfully navigated a childhood performing in the movie business, but has consistently selected progressive roles for women in film.
Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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.
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
I've always felt badly that Jimmy wasn't treated with the kind of respect that I thought he deserved, ... Having known him and known how committed and determined he was as an artist and how tortured he was as a human being, and knowing the agonies of his childhood, I felt that this was a good chance to make an honorable psychological portrait of him.
Beginning nutrition education in early childhood is an important part of helping to ensure that children will achieve healthful lifestyles,
I loved all the camp comics of my childhood, Kenneth Williams and Frankie Howerd and John Inman, but school gave me a very bad feeling about being gay and then, when I was about 12 - bang, along came AIDS. I can't think of a single positive thing about being gay at that time.
Kids have told us this war is very real to them, but when you're a kid, even when you have something important to say, it's not always easy to be heard. We grownups like to think of childhood as a time of total innocence. Kids know better. They aren't able to ignore this war. The noise is too loud. And so they think about it. Now they get a chance to tell the rest of us what they're thinking.
And what were childhood, wanting you?
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
When we start getting athletes suspended based on what somebody said, you see what gate that opens up. This does not make sense, especially based on what somebody said and that somebody said she had a sleeping disorder from childhood, tested positive at t
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact.
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone connected to it to hell.
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
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