#childhood

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master! ↗

— Mihail Drumeş

#childhood #courage #independence #power #courage

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#boy #brooklyn #childhood #i #i was born

There was very little art in my childhood. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#childhood #little #very

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#happen #happy #happy childhood #i #i think

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#also #am #aware #awareness #besides

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#fantastic #how #i #many #ny times

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. ↗

— Anita Diament

#denver #early #early childhood #family #i

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#become #begin #boy #child #childhood

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#draw #explore #gives #ideas #imagination

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#childhood #eden #every #experienced #leave