"The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay."

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"The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay."

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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Childhood, Friend, Story, Imagination, Trust

"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Childhood, Innocence, Fire, Nobility, Nature

"The great cathedral space which was childhood."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Childhood, Memory, Space, Cathedral

"To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience..."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Childhood, Sensation, Experience, Wonder

"All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

Childhood, Comfort, Nostalgia, Happiness

"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."

John Green, American Author

Childhood, Wind, Kids, Life, Learning

"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Childhood, Memory, Comfort, Storytelling

"And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown."

John Green, American Author

Childhood, Growth, Innocence, Maturity

"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

"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

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"No man surely has so short a memory as the American."

American

"It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great."

Men

"The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute."

Life

"It was part of your religion to hate the British."

Religion

"TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance."

Life

"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us."

Business

"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet."

Love

"I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us."

God

"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

Difference

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

Death