#childhood

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#childhood #corpses #dies

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. ↗

— Eleanor Porter

#childhood #got #me #personal #pollyanna

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#childhood #father #good #good childhood #happy person

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. ↗

— Plutarch

#celebrated #childhood #continue #days #ignorant

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#psychology #dreams

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#age

Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me? ↗

— Annie Ernaux

#childhood #age

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world. ↗

— L.R. Knost

#children #motherhood #parenting #play #age

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#growing-up #age