#child

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#childhood #reading #childhood

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. ↗

— E. B. White

#doorway #full #met #mind #never

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#childhood #childhood

I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#childhood

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#childhood-memories #music #art

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. ↗

— Guy Debord

#children #life #life

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#children #enjoy #future #neither #nor

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #especially #fulfill

I love you enough not to care if you hate me. ↗

— Kelly Harman

#love

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children ↗

— Pat Conroy

#damage #divorce #divorce