#hood

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#cannot #childhood #hell #prolonged #remain

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#administer #battle #brotherhood #cannot #devotion

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere. ↗

— David James Elliott

#always #attacks #became #break #break up

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#fact #falsehood #may #opposite #profound

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#allow #case #characters #childhood #comics

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood. ↗

— Omar Epps

#brotherhood #color #known #people #realizing

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible. ↗

— Lucien Bouchard

#children #continuation #everyone #full #gone

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#adolescence #childhood #could #early #early life