Ice Cube Quotes

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I'm fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades - they can even shape who you ultimately become.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

Every memory I have from when I was a kid involves basketball.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

What is learned in youth is carved in stone.