#childhood

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

#arrive #childhood #dream #feel #happy

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood. ↗

— Barbet Schroeder

#been #childhood #colombia #country #following

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#born #childhood #day #farms #here

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#am #before #childhood #dark #different

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

#becomes #both #child #childhood #learning

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

#common-sense #did #doctrines #earliest #economy

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#childhood #connected #i #jaded #much

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong. ↗

— Travis Barker

#died #had #i #know #made

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. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#age