Horace Mann Quotes

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

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.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.