Quotes About Wordsworth Childhood

#1. Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

William Wordsworth

#2. When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.

Aminatta Forna

#3. I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

Jason Mraz

#4. When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

G.K. Chesterton

#5. Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

Juan Williams

#6. The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.

William Wordsworth

#7. When I came to El Bulli, right away I knew I was becoming part of something incredible. It was like watching the Big Bang happening right in front of me.

Jose Andres

#8. If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline, and that is not a position that conservation biologists want to be in.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#9. Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

William Wordsworth

#10. Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women who tell their stories in the first person, nor have I ever thought of myself as being like her.

Barbara Pym

#11. Whenever you meet someone who's different, think of three other things about that person.

Marcia K. Matthews

#12. Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Mary Parker Follett

#13. Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.

Carla H. Krueger

#14. The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club.

Sinclair Lewis

#15. It is impossible to find a single example of a monopoly that has ever existed without official protection.

Faustino Ballve

#16. The only possible paradises are those we have lost

Marcel Proust

#17. That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb.

John Green

#18. The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

William Wordsworth

#19. Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible online, in range of their ads, and is willing to spend billions creating more reasons and ways for us to do so.

Douglas Rushkoff