#childhood

A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything. ↗

— Lydia Netzer

#fatherhood #love #faith

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees ↗

— Philip Roth

#life

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#course #did #endlessly #essence #friends

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#childhood #grow #grow up #i #i always

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#abraham lincoln #carry #certain #characters #childhood

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#attitude #childhood #deprived #dreadful #feel

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. ↗

— David Walliams

#because #being #being alone #characters #child

That great Cathedral space which was childhood. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#childhood #great #space #which

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. ↗

— William Gibson

#been #boy #childhood #corner #dead

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#childhood #provokes #reach #responses #right