#childhood

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#going #huge #obesity #problem #somehow

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

— Beryl Bainbridge

#else #everything #grow #never #out

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

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives—as an actual project under way, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#childhood #history #memory #dreams

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. ↗

— Tre Cool

#childhood #i #means #normal #normal childhood

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#accept #back #childhood #christmas #dose

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#childhood #comes #i #i think #last