"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Childhood, Regret, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

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

Marty Rubin, American Author

Childhood, Rebellion, Exploration, Freedom, Innocence

"In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge."

Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian Athlete

Childhood, First, Quick, School

"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

"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Childhood, Truth, Fear, Wisdom, Power

"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

"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Story, Innocence, Simplicity

"We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Childhood, Truth, Memory, Reality

"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Childhood, Absurdity, Innocence, Experience

"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Childhood, Man, Problem, Loss, Innocence

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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"

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

"In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge."

"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."

"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."

"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."

"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."

"We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them."

"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."

"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."

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"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."

"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"

"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."

"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

"My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers."

"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."