Agatha Christie Quotes

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

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

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.

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

The things that impress you when you're a child have an incredible influence on your life.

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.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

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.

Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

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

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

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in your brain. As you get older, things just bounce off. I can remember these minute details of stupid TV shows from the '70s, and I can't remember a book I read yesterday.

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

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

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.

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.

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

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

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

What is learned in youth is carved in stone.