Leaving Childhood Behind Quotes

#1. Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

Joseph Campbell

#2. I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.

Elizabeth Hurley

#3. The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.

Bruno Schulz

#4. You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!

Lily King

#5. To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby ...

Conrad Williams

#6. If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground.

Elinor Wylie

#7. What would you do?
Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

Tim O'Brien

#8. Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

Janet Flanner

#10. My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

Francesco Clemente

#11. I'll say she's brave," Grandma chimes in. "She's going to England day after tomorrow to hump some guy she barely knows.

Meg Cabot

#12. In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

Thiruvalluvar

#13. Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

Sarah Addison Allen

#14. [The Writer silently passes her a pint bottle of whiskey.] Thank you, Mr.
?
WRITER: Chekhov! Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov!
MRS HARDWICKE-MOORE [smiling with the remnants of coquetry]: Thank you, Mr.
Chekhov.

Tennessee Williams

#15. Everything was sacred when nothing was taken for granted, she thinks ruefully.

Rene Denfeld

#16. Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music ...

Vincent Canby

#17. Common Sense beats a dumb suggestion.

Ton'ya Felder

#18. When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#19. The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.

Peter Rollins

#20. We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

A.J. Darkholme

#21. Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.

Deborah Sandella

#22. I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

Steven Millhauser