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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood Quotes
On memory, nostalgia, and the years that shaped us.
This collection captures childhood in very different forms, a self-sufficient upbringing with a cow and vegetable gardens, and a holiday that has slowly lost its old magic as it grew more secular. See Hope quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been acting forever, and wardrobe changes the way you feel, so it totally indicates the character you're going to play.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can, in turn, be a blessing to society.
- Knowledge
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People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.
- People
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Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.
- Mysterious
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Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
- Human
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One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
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- Nov 07, 2020