"All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey."

Childhood, Rebellion, Exploration, Freedom, Innocence

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"It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?"

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Childhood, Animals, Expectation, Disappointment

"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Childhood, Pain, Books, Isolation

"We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Childhood, Religion, Transformation

"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Independence, Curiosity, Life

"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Childhood, Growth, Change, Desire

"A child's giggle is worth one hundred pounds of gold."

Amy Leigh Mercree, American Author

Childhood, Joy, Values, Happiness

"A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Childhood, Stability, Growth, Travel

"You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Childhood, Love, Father, Emotion

"I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Childhood, Fear, Animals, Courage

"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Childhood, Books, Imagination, Living

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"It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?"

"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."

"We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters."

"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."

"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."

"A child's giggle is worth one hundred pounds of gold."

"A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony."

"You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there."

"I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you."

"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book."

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"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."

"We never solve the big questions, we outgrow them."

"If your work is stressful, it's not your work."

"The man who doesn't howl at the moon when his mother dies is no man at all."

"Life corrects the errors of logic."

"Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness."

"We all suffer our share of grief but we are stronger than our grief."

"Frailty, thy name is human!"

"A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal."

"There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about."