"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."

Childhood, Wonder, Miracle, Life

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"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."

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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Endurance, Memory, Reflection

"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."

Margaret Mitchell, American Novelist

Childhood, History, Power, Tradition, Class

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

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

Childhood,

"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Children, Imagination, Preparation, Strength

"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."

Dragos Bratasanu, Romanian Scientist

Childhood, Attachment, Emotion, Love

"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Childhood, Wonder, Miracle, Life

"More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs."

Zadie Smith, British Novelist

Childhood, Silence, Observation, Truth, Contemplation

"I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Childhood, Feelings, Adultery, Story, Absence

"O Stunden in der Kindheit,da hinter den Figuren mehr als nurVergangnes war und vor uns nicht die Zukunft."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Childhood, Past, Future, Memory

"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

Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world."

Faith

"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

Psychology

"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."

Fame

"The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact."

Wisdom

"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."

Culture

"The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact, it is actually our truisms that are untrue."

Philosophy

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

Success

"A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both."

Spiritual

"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."

Education

"The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you (though I might) for being kind. I curse you for being safe!"

Politics