#childhood

I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can't say that I wish I hadn't done it. I used to say, 'No, I didn't miss any of my childhood,' but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it's a little weird. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#am #any #child #childhood #done

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#else #everything #grow #never #out

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience

Genius is childhood recalled at will. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#genius #recalled #will

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#children #fairy-tales #upbringing #beauty

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. ↗

— Martha Beck

#childhood #laughter #sex

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#childhood #childhood dream #dream #everybody #going

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#dream #had #holy #i #implied

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗