"Children are prophets of nature."

Childhood, Children, Nature, Wisdom, Innocence

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"Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Childhood, Awe, Holiday, Resentment

"Gingerbread houseswith gumdrops and peppermintand marshmallow snow."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Childhood, Joy, Imagination, Happiness

"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."

Tommy Rettig, American Actor

Childhood, Relationships

"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Childhood, Memory, Learning, Life

"The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic."

Bill Cosby, American Comedian

Childhood, Friends, Play

"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."

William Joyce, American Author

Childhood, Mathematics

"Let there be a child, who should, not be taught. Let there be a child, who should, be refrained from books. Let him not hear, don't preach him, dear. Don't let him read the quotations, on internet and make them his passion. Don't tell him stories of successful, and make them his anthem.Allow him to grow unto what, he is to know."

Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Indian Writer

Childhood, Growth, Freedom, Learning

"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Childhood, Innocence, Future, Freedom

"There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Childhood, Joy, Innocence, Identity

"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

Childhood, First, Gay, Teachers, Teaching

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