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10 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Childhood✕clear

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you.

1971

★ 1.8

Play · Tragedy (play)

They say an old man is twice a child.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 1.9

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

William Wordsworth

To a Butterfly (I've Watched You Now a Full Half-Hour) · 1807

★ 2.0

Let no one think that he can conquer the first impressions of his youth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1796

★ 2.1

The accent of one's birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

1678

★ 3.5

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore- Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

William Wordsworth

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood · 1807

★ 3.5

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

The Power and the Glory · 1940

★ 3.6

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol · 1843

★ 4.0

Novel · Coming of age story

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1860

★ 4.5

TV program · Coming of age (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Coming of age · Comedy

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day, you’re in diapers; next day, you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house…like a lot of other houses; a yard like a lot of other yards; on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is…after all these years, I still look back…with wonder.

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

The Wonder Years · 1993

★ 6.9