Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life is fragile. You have to acknowledge that side of life to be able to then offer comfort and hope and goodwill.
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.
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.
I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.
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