Pastoral Resources

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.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.