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#childhood

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It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.


Nicole Krauss


#nicole-krauss #the-history-of-love #love

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child--I am twelve-and-a-half years old--but it still isn't fair. If I go into a store to buy something, nobody pays any attention to me, or if they do, it's to say, "Leave that alone," "Don't touch that," although I haven't done anything. My money is as good as anybody's, but because I am younger, they feel they can be mean to me. It happens to me at home, too. My mother's friend who comes over after dinner sometimes, who doesn't have any children of her own and doesn't know what's what, likes to say to me, "Shouldn't you be in bed by now,dear?" when she doesn't even know what my bedtime is supposed to be. Is there any way I can make these people stop? GENTLE READER: Growing up is the best revenge.


Judith Martin


#miss-manners #money

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#children #future #parenthood #parenting #parenting

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.


William Joyce


#guardians-of-childhood #inspiration #dreams

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#growth #growth

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]


Richard Paul Evans


#christmasa #memories #smells #christmas

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.


J.M. Barrie


#magic #childhood

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?


Louis de Bernières


#insanity #childhood

All of us are products of our childhood.


Michael Jackson


#childhood

Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of toothache, a thrashed backside, broken bones, stubbed toes, gashed knees or twisted ankles – I recall the pains of loneliness, boredom, abandonment, humiliation, rejection and fear. Those are the pains on which I might and, still sometimes do, dwell, and those pains, almost without exception, were inflicted on me by other children and by myself.


Stephen Fry


#boredom






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