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“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood”
Beryl Bainbridge
“I spent my whole childhood going, 'Oh my God... All right, fine. I may be attracted to women, but I can't be a lesbian. I like Laura Ashley polished cottons! And I throw like a girl! And I cry for no apparent reason all the time! Oh my God, I'm a gay man!'”
Vickie Shaw
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”
Elizabeth Lawrence
“Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.”
Dr. Rollo May
“There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man.”
William Osler
“Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.”
Albert Einstein
“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”
Ben Okri
“It is never too late to have a happy childhood”
Tom Robbins
“Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.”
James Matthew Barrie
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