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Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, because people don't have leaves. Lola writes, When the sun is beating down, they bite everything, even the wind. And we all have leaves. Leaves fall off when you stop growing, because childhood is all gone. And they grow back when you shrivel up, because love is all gone. Leaves spring up at will, writes Lola, just like tall grass. Two or three children in the village don't have any leaves, and those have a big childhood. A child like that is an only child, because it has a father and a mother who have been to school. The leaf-fleas turn older children into younger ones - a four-year-old into a three-year-old, a three-year-old into a one-year-old. Even a six-months-old, writes Lola, and even a newborn. And the more little brothers and sisters the leaf-fleas make, the smaller the childhood becomes.

~ Herta Müller

Herta Müller Childhood

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

~ George R.r. Martin

George R.r. Martin Childhood Innocence Myrcella Myrcella Baratheon

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

~ Aleatha Romig

Aleatha Romig Childhood

It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.

~ L.r. Knost

L.r. Knost Childhood Children Happiness Play

I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.

~ Bauvard

Bauvard Childhood Cynicism Disillusionment Funny Growing Up Humor Idealism

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

~ Francesca Lia Block

Francesca Lia Block Child Childhood Children Fantasies Fantastic Fantasy Game Games Playing Playing Games Pretend Pretending Reality

Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell Childhood Children Children S Tantrums

Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever…

~ Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle Childhood Coming Of Age Growing Up Paddy Clarke Roddy Doyle

I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

~ Bill Withers

Bill Withers Childhood Evolve Self Help

Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Childhood Mark Twain Tom Sawyer

Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the pools underneath like a kind of deep green glass. Summer evenings, the fish breaking the water, the nightjars hawking round your head, the smell of nightstocks and latakia. Don’t mistake what I’m talking about. It’s not that I’m trying to put across any of that poetry of childhood stuff. I know that’s all baloney. Old Porteous (a friend of mine, a retired schoolmaster, I’ll tell you about him later) is great on the poetry of childhood. Sometimes he reads me stuff about it out of books. Wordsworth. Lucy Gray. There was a time when meadow, grove, and all that. Needless to say he’s got no kids of his own. The truth is that kids aren’t in any way poetic, they’re merely savage little animals, except that no animal is a quarter as selfish.A boy isn’t interested in meadows, groves, and so forth. He never looks at a landscape, doesn’tgive a damn for flowers, and unless they affect him in some way, such as being good to eat, he doesn’t know one plant from another. Killing things - that’s about as near to poetry as a boy gets. And yet all the while there’s that peculiar intensity, the power of longing for things as you can’t long when you’re grown up, and the feeling that time stretches out and out in front of you and that whatever you’re doing you could go on for ever.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell Childhood

It reminded me of how children always thought too big, how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.

~ Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Childhood

Bloom of adulthood. Try a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you remember. Cloudless May day. She joins you in the little summerhouse. Entirely of logs. Both larch and fir. Six feet across. Eight from floor to vertex. Area twenty-four square feet to the furthest decimal. Two small multicoloured lights vis-a-vis. Small stained diamond panes. Under each a ledge. There on summer Sundays after his midday meal your father loved to retreat with Punch and a cushion. The waist of his trousers unbuttoned he sat on the one ledge and turned the pages. You on the other your feet dangling. When he chuckled you tried to chuckle too. When his chuckle died yours too. That you should try to imitate his chuckle pleased and amused him greatly and sometimes he would chuckle for no other reason than to hear you try to chuckle too. Sometimes you turn your head and look out through a rose-red pane. You press your little nose against the pane and all without is rosy. The years have flown and there at the same place as then you sit in the bloom of adulthood bathed in rainbow light gazing before you. She is late.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Adulthood Childhood Relentlessness

The stove, she knew, wished it were a volcano, the humble teaspoons wished they were steamshovels, and the sink wished it were a well so all the others could have their wishes. Yet they all stayed exactly the same no matter what they wished, no matter what they saw and heard.

~ Georgess Mchargue

Georgess Mchargue Change Childhood Time Wishes

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.

~ Susan Hubbard

Susan Hubbard Childhood Differentiation Odd Outsider Sheltered

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

~ Harper Lee

Harper Lee Childhood Summer

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?

~ George Eliot

George Eliot Childhood Love Nature

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!

~ Mihail Drumeş

Mihail Drumeş Bravery Childhood Courage Independence Power

... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.

~ Sarah Winman

Sarah Winman Childhood Growing Up Life Lessons

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too. It's a book which, in the reading of it, takes me back to editions that I've had and lost, with various illustrators' work in them. It brings back moments sitting reading it with my mother. It brings back my first contact with the Disney cartoon. It brings back standing in the play-yard when I was a kid, when the wind was really blowing, and closing my eyes, spreading my arms and pretending I could fly. It brings back childhood dreams of flying. It brings back the first encounter I ever had with an invented world... Never Never Land was really the first journey I took to an invented world which I believed in wholly and completely. I remember the immense solidarity that I felt with the Lost Boys, with Peter, with the Indians - how much I wanted to be a Red Indian - how much the saving of Tiger Lily meant to me as a kid, how much I wanted to one day wake up and save an Indian squaw from drowning.

~ Clive Barker

Clive Barker Books Childhood Inspiration Reading

Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of alliances and enmities and feuds and treaties which was a child’s life in Oxford. Children playing together: how pleasant to see! What could be more innocent and charming?

~ Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman Childhood Innocence Irony Politics Rivalry

I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put whatever I handed him in his mouth. He would try to eat anything. I fed him Tabasco sauce and he yelled. Having a little brother helped me learn to relate to other people. Being a little brother, Snort learned to watch what he put in his mouth.

~ John Elder Robison

John Elder Robison Baby Brothers Childhood Children Siblings

In the tell-me-again times, (…) when my mom and I lived in a little apartment in a little building downtown, I slept in her bed. It was a raft on the ocean, a cloud, a forest, a spaceship, a cocoon that we shared. I could stretch out like a five-pointed star and then she'd bundle me back up in her arms. I'd wake in the morning tangled in her hair.

~ Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Erica Lorraine Scheidt Childhood Childhood Memories Children Mother Daughter

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

~ Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino Childhood Nature Passion Unleashed

You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?

~ A.j. Hartley

A.j. Hartley Childhood Self Confidence

I looked out the window and saw the street and railroad tracks, the woods beyond. Beyond the woods, the county of which they were a part. And so on, until it all dissolved into the larger thing: my mother's house becoming every other house as I once had seen it, sitting atop the southern end of a broad river valley, close enough to the the mountains that every few years a scared black bear would wander down into the remaining forest, and close enough to the ocean that those early English settlers took it as the farthest point they'd go upstream, the geology of the place preventing them from having any choice other than the one wherein they said, We are lost; therefore we will call this home. And close enough that as a child I had been teased by older kids who said if I only tried hard enough I would smell salt water, and I, believing, stood among the light poles and the gulls in the parking lots of A&Ps and cried when I knew that it was true despite the fact that they had meant to lie, as children sometimes do.

~ Kevin Powers

Kevin Powers Childhood Truth

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Katerina Stoykova Klemer Childhood Children Parents Relationships Writing

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes, that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson Adulthood Childhood Deceit Lying

They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth. The world has always been full of vicious predators. For plenty of people this carnage and savagery is business as usual.

~ Adam Baker

Adam Baker Childhood Gay Life Zombies

A child's a plaything for an hour.

~ Mary Lamb

Mary Lamb Children Childhood

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

~ Mason Cooley

Mason Cooley Children Childhood

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why he does.

~ Chinese Proverb

Chinese Proverb Children Childhood

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God the family angels devils witches goblins logic clarity punctuation and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity but leave to adults such childish allusions.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer Children Childhood

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Edgar Z. Friedenberg Children Childhood

Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.

~ Plato

Plato Children Childhood

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

~ Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky Children Childhood

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Children Childhood

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Children Childhood

If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.

~ Goethe

Goethe Children Childhood

What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood' but only to be loved even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.

~ Carl Zucker

Carl Zucker Children Childhood
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