Quotes About Fleeting Childhood

#1. I was thinking about how I thank my lucky stars every day that I ended up here ... right here, with you

Mia Sheridan Archer's Voice

#2. Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

B.C. Forbes

#3. I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

Gilbert Hernandez

#4. Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.

Mark Shields

#5. I always knew I wanted to be in a band.

Hayley Williams

#6. Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

Richard Paul Evans

#7. You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale

Cassandra Clare

#8. Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.

Marvin Minsky

#9. Mother seemed to wish that she'd never had a childhood, perhaps because all delight was fleeting and because the promise of one day was not fulfilled even just until the next.

Dean Koontz

#10. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our constitution works.

Gerald R. Ford

#11. Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Diane Ackerman

#12. And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.

Markus Zusak

#13. Of all the screams cataloged in the encyclopedic audio library of the Hidden Schools, Tara's bore the closest resemblance to the scream of a man whose abdomen was being devoured by a jagged-clawed insect that wore a child's face. After

Max Gladstone

#14. Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!

William Shakespeare

#15. To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Richard Serra

#16. Everything happens for a reason. Everything. The good, the bad, the indifferent. They all have a purpose. Never forget who you are. Never forget what you serve. And no matter what happens, keep your face turned to the light.

Karen Miller

#17. Florence saw childhood as something fleeting to be enjoyed. I saw childhood as a training period, a time to build character and invest for the future.

Amy Chua

#18. Faith is developed in a setting where we cannot see ahead.

Dallin H. Oaks

#19. If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

Brian Andreas

#20. The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

Thornton Wilder