#childhood

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. ↗

— Karel Capek

#any #childhood #constitutes #glory #had

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#competitive #dad #did #drive #everything

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#consistency #had #i #like #mine

I didn't really get a normal childhood. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#get #i #normal #normal childhood #really

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#back #childhood #during #even #fairy

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#childhood #childhood memories #chocolate #feeling #first

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#childhood #erased #feelings #filled #many

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! ↗

— Max Muller

#explain #mysteries #secrets #tell #them

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#borders #childhood #elegant #everything #grand

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#discoveries #eternal #glow #god #i