Joys Of Childhood Quotes

• Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.

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  Eliphas Levi

  Flower   Maturity   Simple  

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• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

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  Sigmund Freud

  Daughter   Fathers Day   Strong  

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

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  George Eliot

  Mother   Morning   Memories  

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.157, Wordsworth Editions

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• To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.

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  Fulton J. Sheen

  Daughter   Dirty   Heart  

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• Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

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  Joyce Maynard

  Years   Childhood   Joy  

  "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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• Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

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  Russell Baker

  Children   Reality   People  

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• The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

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  Ellen Glasgow

  Children   Giving   Childhood  

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press

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• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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  Graham Greene

  Love   Inspirational   Spiritual  

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

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