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Childhood

«Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never»
Author: Anna Jameson (Essayist) | About: Childhood | Keywords: second childhood, visit
«Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.»
«He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.»
Author: Herbert Gold | About: Childhood | Keywords: aged, breast, carried, middle-aged
«Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.»
«Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.»
«Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age / The child is grown, and puts away childish things. / Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. / Nobody that matters, that is.»
«Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!»
«Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel | About: Childhood, Democracy | Keywords: contented
«Childhood is the sleep of reason.»
«From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.»
Author: John Updike | About: Childhood | Keywords: infancy, spies

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