#childhood

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. ↗

— Peter Handke

#loses #nation #storytellers

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#also #become #childhood #come #comfortable

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#early #evolution #future #growing #growing up

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace. ↗

— Lisa Whelchel

#childhood #friends #just #replace #something

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#childhood #forming #high #high school #i

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#friends #had #i #normal #normal childhood

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#childhood #decision #dramatically #eventual #fed

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#child #childhood #daughter #except #garland

the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#innocence #love

Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy," I assured her. "Your butt got bigger. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#humor #silly #humor