"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."

Childhood, Experience, Courage, Mother

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"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."

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"Widow. The word consumes itself."

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"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

Health

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

Hope

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."

Life

"The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end."

Success

"The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things."

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"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."

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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

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"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

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

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"Widow. The word consumes itself."

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."

"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

"Is there no way out of the mind?"

"The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end."

"The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things."

"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."

Exlpore more Childhood quotes

"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."