Carl Sagan Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Childhood 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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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Children 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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Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

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

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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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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Men Quotes , Childhood Quotes

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Childhood Quotes , Stupidity Quotes

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

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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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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

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Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

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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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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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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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Children are our greatest untapped resource.

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Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Childhood Quotes