"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."

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"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."

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"A child is child."

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"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love."

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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Kids don't have much accumulated and deep memories and that's why they happily live in the present time!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe?"

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"No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians."

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"My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland."

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"A child is child."

"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."

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

"The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love."

"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."

"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."

"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."

"Kids don't have much accumulated and deep memories and that's why they happily live in the present time!"

"When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness."

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"No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians."

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"There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed."

"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."

"My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland."

"I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way."

"I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it."

"This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me."