#childhood

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. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child? ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#constraints #freedom #memory #dreams

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#childhood #children

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it. ↗

— Tina Yothers

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Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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