"We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon."

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

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"Quentin had grown up with that; the mere names were interchangeable and almost myriad. His childhood was full of them; his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names; he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth. He was a barracks filled with stubborn back-looking ghosts still recovering, even forty-three years afterward, from the fever which had cured the disease, waking from the fever without even knowing that it had been the fever itself which they had fought against and not the sickness, looking with stubborn recalcitrance backward beyond the fever and into the disease with actual regret, weak from the fever yet free of the disease and not even aware that the freedom was that of impotence."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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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

"It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Childhood, Rebellion, Books, Imagination

"And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Childhood, Innocence, Knowledge, Observation, Life

"Their suburbia house in Brentwood' was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-year-old establishing that it was not her decision, not her taste, a child claiming the distance all children imagine themselves to need."

Joan Didion, American Author

Childhood, Identity, Observation, Growth

"There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glory."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

Childhood, Children, Miracle, Glory, Empowerment

"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

Childhood, Religion, Transformation

"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

Childhood, Animals, Expectation, Disappointment

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

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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."

"It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them."

"And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes."

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