#childhood

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

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. ↗

— Patti Smith

#another #any #anybody #because #childhood

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. ↗

— Patti Smith

#childhood #fanciful #financial #great #had

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

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#childhood #children

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#because #childhood #complaints #i #thing

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#colossal #earliest #enters #gates #had