"A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth."

Childhood, Joy, Humor, Innocence

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"I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome."

Joan Didion, American Author

Childhood, Innocence, Reflection, Memory, Truth

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

John Green, American Author

Childhood, Growth, Innocence, Maturity

"While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Childhood, Play, Secrets, Friendship

"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."

Maureen Forrester, Canadian Musician

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"Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Childhood, Children, Books, Learning, Happiness

"A person begins childhood with a mind that is essentially a blank slate " a tabula rasa " before receiving outside impressions. Early childhood experiences and perceptions begin the formulation of a state of conscious awareness, the infantile steps in forming a personality, developing social and emotional behavior, and acquiring practical and book knowledge. Childhood plays a critical role in forming our final version of a self-concept."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Childhood, Mind, Experience, Personality

"Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us."

John Updike, American Novelist

Childhood, Children, Reflection, Humanity, Understanding

"I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood."

Alan Hovhaness, American Composer

Childhood, Old, Years

"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

"In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine."

Sanhita Baruah, Indian Writer

Childhood, Imagination, Story, Innocence

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"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

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"Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

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"The dew of compassion is a tear."

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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

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"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

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"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

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"I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome."

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

"While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights."

"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."

"Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books."

"Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us."

"I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood."

"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."

"In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine."

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"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

"Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"They never fail who die in a great cause."