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Quotes about childhood
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Where once my careless childhood strayed,/ A stranger yet to pain. (Burghoff Gary)
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility. (Burghoff Gary)
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. (Burghoff Gary)
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. (Burghoff Gary)
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder. (Burghoff Gary)
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. (Burghoff Gary)
Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of. (Burghoff Gary)
Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. (Burghoff Gary)
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. (Burghoff Gary)
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. (Burghoff Gary)
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. (Burghoff Gary)
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. (Burghoff Gary)
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. (Burghoff Gary)
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. (Burghoff Gary)
Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? (Burghoff Gary)
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. (Burghoff Gary)
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. (Burghoff Gary)
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. (Burghoff Gary)
When I was a kid, my favourite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in awhile he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear. (Burghoff Gary)
I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask. (Burghoff Gary)
I had a great childhood. I had such fun. (Burghoff Gary)
When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis. (Burghoff Gary)
When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it. (Burghoff Gary)
Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless. (Burghoff Gary)
[Paula Abdul and Michael Bolton go way back. Back to when she was 7 - he used to baby-sit her.] I had this couch and we pushed it up against the door to try to lock him out one night, ... used to call me a brat. I said he was the worst baby sitter in the world, but I actually loved him. (Burghoff Gary)
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