What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Somehow, the days of summer with their glimmering enchantment of dancing ladybugs and sailing clouds had faded into grey. Maddie’s heart had somehow faded with it.

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the...

Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.

A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

an unhappy childhood.” Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he wondered if this whole expedition was unfolding more like a novel, and would be blamed on one person, one character, the guy...

You see, when you’re young and foolish it doesn’t matter where you may be, you always think that you’ll be happier somewhere else.

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

We want our children to have a childhood that’s magical and enriched, but I’ll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood’s magic words: “I...

The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It’s what we know and...

Each month is gay,Each season nice,When eatingChicken soupWith rice

Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.

There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and...

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

Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

There’s something about girls and unicorns that’s deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

Beating heroin is child’s play compared to beating your childhood.

She looked at me for a second and said, “Oh, never mind. I guess it’s true what Mom said? That you’ve led a sheltered life?”I said I thought the description fairly apt.

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

You see, I don’t think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

Four years after my father’s death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief...

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it’s great to see that somebody’s still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

My sister’s bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It...

I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now …

I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new...

… because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one...

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!– when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

Apesar de eu não saber ler, distinguia bem entre as letras hebraicas, impressas no lado esquerdo do devocionário, e as alemãs, no lado direito. As hebraicas agradavam-me mais: vistosas, arredondadas, levavam, por cima e por...

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It’s the most important thing.

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a ‘child’, of being wholly subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet,...

The birth of a new born baby is a great joy.

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child’s memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with the slow death of my grandmother, of the decline of my will and of my health. Everything had been...

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

There’s the parent you want and the parent you have.

I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad’s massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It was something I did frequently throughout my childhood with music, comedy and film,...

What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours – that is what one must arrive at. Loneliness of the kind one knew...

Every person will become three time child in their life.One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.It’s never be gone.

As a boy, Ogion like all boys had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art-magic whatever shape one liked, man or beast, tree or cloud, and so to play at...

You could choose anywhere instead of this house. I know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be.” The spider said nothing. Come to think of it, Callum was sure the spider hadn’t...