1,864 Quotes About Childhood
- Author Paul Auster
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(...) if a child is not allowed to enter the imaginary, he will never come to grips with the real.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else – catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever.
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- Author Ali Hussain
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One can speak best through stories. Things only come alive in this way. This is because such things are the children of our experiences. They are conceived during big events in our lives, born when we begin to reflect on those incidents and then grow with us as our appreciation for the memories that brought them into being also lives and thrives.
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- Author Neil Gaiman
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It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
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- Author Steve Rasnic Tem
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I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.
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- Author Karen White
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I wanted to cry for the little girls we’d been before the world’s glaring spotlight eradicated our childish imaginations.
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- Author Darnell Lamont Walker
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There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.
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- Author L.R. Knost
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Join them in their world when they're little so you'll be welcome in their world when they get big.
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- Author James Weldon Johnson
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I lived between my music and books, on the whole a rather unwholesome life for a boy to lead. I dwelt in a world of imagination, of dreams and air castles--the kind of atmosphere that sometimes nourishes a genius, more often men unfitted for the practical struggles of life.
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