Adolf Eichmann Quotes, Order Quotes, Childhood Quotes

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Time Quotes , Childhood Quotes

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

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Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Childhood Quotes , Youth Quotes

Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison.

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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Childhood Quotes , Away From You Quotes

If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

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Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Sea Quotes , Childhood Quotes

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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Childhood Quotes , Miracle Quotes

All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Childhood Quotes , Soul Quotes

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

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The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

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My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

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Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

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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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Tags : Alan Hovhaness Quotes , Years Quotes , Childhood Quotes

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

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