#hood

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#clean #clean up #gun #guns #industry

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience

Genius is childhood recalled at will. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#genius #recalled #will

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#children #fairy-tales #upbringing #beauty

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. ↗

— Martha Beck

#childhood #laughter #sex

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#childhood #childhood dream #dream #everybody #going

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#dream #had #holy #i #implied

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗