
Top 31 Quotes About Second Childhood
#2. [T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants
neither alcohol nor meat
are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.
Angela Carter
#4. Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.
Honore De Balzac
#5. The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.
William Mountford
#6. Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.
Christopher Hawke
#7. She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
Simon Hoggart
#8. The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood
Gerald Massey
#10. Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
James M. Barrie
#11. As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#12. How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.
Martin Luther
#13. Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five years old. Most people lose that spontaneity; I think that always happens. Some are able to win a second spontaneity.
Alvaro Siza
#14. Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
Anna Jameson
#15. If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!
Dylan Lauren
#16. The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
Ingmar Bergman
#17. Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.
Weike Wang
#18. Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
J.M. Barrie
#19. I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.
Clint Eastwood
#20. I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.
Sandra Bullock
#21. I am just making up for being far too sensible when I was young.
Robert Black
#22. You're my best friend's kid sister, Ang. I've known you since you were eight." He ducked his head, dragged his hands through his hair with all the frustration winding through him. "Christ, if your brother finds out, he'll have my hide.
J.M. Stewart
#23. No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.
Daniel H. Wilson
#24. For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
Gene Luen Yang
#25. Unable to help himself, he offered her a smile and stared into those eyes as he tapped his mouth. "I think you missed.
J.M. Stewart
#26. On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.
Elizabeth Taylor
#27. She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"
I said I thought the description fairly apt.
Susan Hubbard
#28. It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.
Mark Wahlberg
#29. Every person will become three time child in their life.
One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.
It's never be gone.
Savan Solanki
#30. I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .
Chris Corrigan
#31. Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone
childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.
Judith Viorst
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