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Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil’s Dictionary
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Ay, these young things lie safe in our hearts just so long
As their wings are in growing; and when these are strong
They break it, and farewell! the bird flies!
OWEN MEREDITH
Lucile
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
The Name of the Wind
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Childhoods never last. But everyone deserves one.
WENDY DALE
Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals
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For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
JOHN CONNOLLY
The Book of Lost Things
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER
Family Circle Magazine, Aug. 9, 2005
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I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
KARL LAGERFELD
«In the Now», The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
NEIL GAIMAN
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Regained
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The story from childhood is like a flower pressed between the pages of a book—you touch it and it crumbles to dust.
HART WEGNER
Off Paradise: Stories
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Childhood is that time in which we never question the fact that every adult act is not only an autonomous occurrence in the universe, but that it is also filled, packed, overflowing with meaning, whether that meaning works for ill or good, whether the ill or good is or is not comprehended.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Neverÿon
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When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE
Writing Magic
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I cherish my childish loves—the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.
GEORGE ELIOT
Theophrastus Such
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
Wine from these Grapes
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Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing.
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of «déjà vu,» when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
EUGENE IONESCO
Present Past / Past Present
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When I was a child, I spake as a child. I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
SAINT PAUL
1 Corinthians 13:11
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Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
AUSTIN O’MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things — new experiences, new emotions — and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.
JOHN BANVILLE
The Sea
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Power and the Glory
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Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn’t disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into each moment.
TOM STOPPARD
The Coast of Utopia
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From the movie: Hook
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“I hated the deal, but I’m sorry you feel so badly about it.
Your children love you, they want to play with you. How long do you think that lasts? Soon Jack may not even want you to come to his games. We have a few special years with our children, when they’re the ones that want us around. After that you’re going to be running after them for a…” (continue)(continue reading)Caroline Goodall — Moira Banning[Tag:childhood, parents, time]
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From the movie: Zoolander
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— Derek Zoolander: Well I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking «wow, you’re ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career».
— Matilda Jeffries: Do what for a career?
— Derek Zoolander: Be professionally good… (continue)(continue reading)Ben Stiller — Derek ZoolanderChristine Taylor — Matilda Jeffries
[Tag:beauty, childhood, job]
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From the movie: Meet the Fockers
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“- Rozalin Focker: See that’s Greg getting circumcised.
— Bernie Focker: We had the ceremony at my parents’ house. There was a cold snap and the heat conked out. Tell it.
— Rozalin Focker: The heater conked out. No matter how hard he tried, the mohel couldn’t coax Greggie’s tiny little turtle from it’s shell.
— Greg Focker: You know what? Let’s.. .” (continue)(continue reading)Barbra Streisand — Rozalin FockerDustin Hoffman — Bernie Focker
Ben Stiller — Greg Focker
[Tag:ceremony, childhood, cold]
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From the movie: Antwone Fisher
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“Who will cry for the little boy, he cried himself to sleep. Who will cry for the little boy, who never had it for keeps. Who will cry for the little boy, who walked on burning sand. Who will cry for the little boy, the boy inside a man. Who will cry for the little boy, who knew well hurt and pain. Who will cry for the little boy, who died and…” (continue)(continue reading)
Derek Luke — Antwone Fisher[Tag:childhood, helping, sorrow]
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From the movie: L.A. Confidential
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“- Lynn Bracken: Where did this come from?
— Bud White: When I was twelve, my old man went after my mother with a bottle. I got in the way.
— Lynn Bracken: So you saved her.
— Bud White: Not for long.”Kim Basinger — Lynn BrackenRussell Crowe — Bud White
[Tag:childhood, mother, safety]
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From the movie: The Prophecy
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“Little Tommy Daggett. How I loved listening to your sweet prayers every night. And then you’d jump in your bed, so afraid I was under there. And I was!”
Viggo Mortensen — Lucifer[Tag:childhood, devil, prayer]
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From the movie: Glory
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“- Pvt. Trip: I’m from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain’t never looked back.
— Pvt. Jupiter Sharts: What ya doin’ since then?
— Pvt. Trip: I run for President. [laughter] I didn’t win though.”
Denzel Washington — Pvt. TripJihmi Kennedy — Pvt. Jupiter Sharts
[Tag:childhood, presidency, sarcasm]
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From the movie: Billy Elliot
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“I don’t want a childhood, I want to be a ballet dancer.”
Jamie Bell — Billy[Tag:childhood, dancing, wishes]
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From the animation: The Boss Baby
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“- Boss Baby: Tim, I may look like a baby, but I was born all grown up.
— Tim: I can’t even imagine not being a kid. You missed out on your whole childhood? You never had someone to love you?
— Boss Baby: Well, you can’t miss what you never had.”
Alec Baldwin — Boss BabyMiles Bakshi — Tim
[Tag:childhood, children, manhood]
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From the movie: The Adam Project
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“I spent thirty years trying to get away from the me that was you and, I’ll tell you what, kid, I hate to say it, but you were the best part all along.”Ryan Reynolds — Big Adam
[Tag:childhood, children]
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From the TV Series: Criminal Minds
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”Thomas Gibson — Aaron Hotchner
[Tag:childhood, children, light]
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From the TV Series: Criminal Minds
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“Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.”
Joe Mantegna — David Rossi[Tag:character, childhood, personality]
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From the movie: Loving Vincent
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“Theo thought his unhappiness went right back to childhood. He tried so hard to fit into his family. But, he never succeeded in this.”
John Sessions — Pere Tanguy[Tag:childhood, family, sadness]
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From the movie: The Farewell
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“You know, one of the few good memories of my childhood were those summers at Nai Nais’s.
They had that garden, Ye Ye and I would catch dragonflies. And then we just moved to the States. Everything was different. Everyone was gone. And it was just the three of us.”
Awkwafina — Billi[Tag:childhood, memory, summer]
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From the TV Series: Tiny Pretty Things
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“There’s a price you pay learning to fly. They steal your childhood, your family…leave you only with friends who hope every day that your Achilles will snap, and they never let you grow up.”
Anna Maiche — Cassie Shore[Tag:childhood, dreams, family]
Your children love you, they want to play with you. How long do you think that lasts? Soon Jack may not even want you to come to his games. We have a few special years with our children, when they’re the ones that want us around. After that you’re going to be running after them for a…” (continue)(continue reading)Caroline Goodall — Moira Banning
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From the TV Series: The 10th Kingdom
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I still have this uncontrollable urge to just go up to people and say «My mother left me when I was seven!». As if that would explain everything. And I miss her. And I hate her!
Kimberly Williams-Paisley — Virginia Lewis
[Tag:childhood, mother]
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From the movie: Happiness
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“If only I had been raped as a child! Then I would know authenticity!”
Lara Flynn Boyle — Helen Jordan
[Tag:authenticity, childhood, rape]
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From the movie: Fight Club
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“My God. I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.”Helena Bonham Carter — Marla Singer
[Tag:childhood, sex]
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From the movie: The Castle
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“- Dale Kerrigan: [voice-over] Dad always had a way of making us feel special. Like the time I dug a hole.
— Darryl Kerrigan: Go on, tell them Dale.
— Dale Kerrigan: I dug a hole.
— Sal Kerrigan: Oh good on you Dale.”
Stephen Curry — Dale KerriganMichael Caton-Jones — Darryl Kerrigan
[Tag:childhood, parents, pride]
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From the movie: Calamari Union
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“We all know the circumstances forced on us in our early years: crowded homes, ignorance and hunger.”
Kari Väänänen — Frank
[Tag:childhood, hunger, ignorance]
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From the TV Series: Two and a Half Men
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“Charlie Harper-Hey, buddy, how you been?
Jake Harper-Life stinks.
Charlie Harper-Cheer up, you’re still a kid. It gets much worse.
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Charlie Sheen — Charlie HarperAngus T. Jones — Jake Harper
[Tag:childhood, life, problems]
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From the movie: Black Widow
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“When you look into the eyes of a child you have raised, no mask in the world can hide that.”
Ray Winstone — Dreykov
[Tag:childhood, children]
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From the TV Series: Criminal Minds
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“To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.”Joe Mantegna — David Rossi
[Tag:childhood, parenthood]
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From the movie: O.J.: Made in America
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As a kid growing up in the ghetto, one of the things I wanted the most was not money, it was fame. I wanted to be known, I wanted people to say, «hey there goes O.J.»
O.J. Simpson — Self
[Tag:childhood, fame, money]
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From the movie: The Current War
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You know, when I was a boy, my father tried to whip me with a branch. But after the first hit, it broke into three little pieces. And we just stood there, looking at this shattered stick on the ground. And then I noticed there was a leather strap hanging on the wall, so I pointed to it and said, “Look. That’s the better one.” And he stopped. I… (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Shannon — George Westinghouse
[Tag:childhood, violence]
They had that garden, Ye Ye and I would catch dragonflies. And then we just moved to the States. Everything was different. Everyone was gone. And it was just the three of us.”Highlights
Phrases about childhood with meaning — Catch phrases
Miracles happen only in childhood.
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Everything passes. And the first thing that we have passed is childhood.
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It’s sad if you spent your childhood without really seeing it.
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As children, they couldn’t drive us home to at least eat. Now the children cannot be driven out into the street to at least breathe.
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Childhood is when you can show your age on your fingers.
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It seems to me that one of the greatest successes in a person’s life is a happy childhood.
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You cannot go through a difficult childhood, it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
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If you didn’t have a bicycle as a child, and now you have a Mercedes, it’s still a shame that you didn’t have a bicycle as a child!
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Childhood is the light at the beginning of the tunnel.
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Childhood is when everything is amazing and nothing is surprising.
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The biggest childhood misconception is that we thought it was great to be adults.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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Probably everyone has a scar on their knee, reminiscent of a happy childhood.
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We are bored with childhood, we are in a hurry to grow up, and then we dream of becoming children again.
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Childhood is something that we lost in time, but kept in ourselves.
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Childhood is the time when all the doors are open for you, and you stand and look how beautiful they are without trying to open them.
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Youth lives in the future, old age lives in the past, and only childhood lives in the present.
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Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist beyond childhood.
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Childhood is like a butterfly eager to burn its white wings in the flames of youth.
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Childhood ends when other people’s tears become more unbearable for you than your own.
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Childhood is when a cat is older than you.
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If being an adult means saying one thing and thinking another, then give me back my childhood.
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In childhood, one ice cream was enough for happiness.
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Childhood is a time of many questions, opportunities and consequences.
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Childhood is the only time in a person’s life when they give you sweets for talking nonsense and everyone around them laughs touchingly.
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Children are angels whose wings shorten as their arms and legs grow.
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Childhood is freedom from age.
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Ignorance is the great advantage of childhood.
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Previously, everyone wanted to become adults, but now everyone wants to plunge into a carefree childhood.
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Childhood is a journey that no one has yet been able to make twice.
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Our life is divided into two parts: When we are small and want to grow up, and when we are adults and want to return to childhood.
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Childhood is a state into which one cannot return, but one can fall.
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Childhood is a time when you think that you are an adult, and adults think that you are a child. And at the same time, everyone is fundamentally mistaken.
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In the theater of life, the only real spectators are children.
Sayings about childhood — Catch phrases
Childhood is something that we lost in time, but kept in ourselves.
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Childhood is the most important and most amazing time in a person’s life.
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Childhood is that marvelous period of life when everything is seen in rainbow colors, not overshadowed by mental pain.
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Youth lives in the future, old age lives in the past, and only childhood lives in the present.
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Childhood ends when sad memories appear.
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Miracles happen only in childhood.
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Childhood is the happiest years of life, but not for children.
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Our life is divided into two parts: when we are small and want to grow up, and when we are adults and want to return to childhood.
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When everything around is amazing, nothing is surprising, this is childhood.
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Childhood is the time when all the doors are open for you, and you stand and look how beautiful they are without trying to open them.
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Childhood is the only time in a person’s life when they give you sweets for talking nonsense and everyone around them laughs touchingly.
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Childhood is when you don’t care about someone else’s opinion. You just don’t care, sprinkled the freak with sand and that’s it.
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Childhood ends when other people’s tears become more unbearable for you than your own.
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Children are angels whose wings shorten as their arms and legs grow.
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Sometimes you want to become a child, because only now I understand that broken knees heal faster than a broken heart.
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Childhood is when you can make unforgivable mistakes and hope that you will be forgiven.
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Childhood is like a butterfly eager to burn its white wings in the flames of youth.
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Childhood is the time when you think you are an adult, but adults think you are a child. And at the same time, everyone is fundamentally mistaken.
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Childhood is when a cat is older than you.
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Ignorance is the great advantage of childhood.
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Nowhere, in any city in the world, do the stars shine as brightly as in the city of childhood.
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Childhood is a foreign country: speaking the same language, parents and children often do not understand each other at all.
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Childhood is the time when you don’t think obscenely.
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Childhood is when sleeping during the day is a duty, not a luxury.
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When we yearn for childhood, we yearn for that blissful state when you still don’t know how much shit lies ahead .
