Top 1200 Joys Of Childhood Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.

Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

I can say that working with Jessica Lange has been one of the most incredible joys of my life.

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.

If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when I'm lost, I just feel like somewhere along the line, if you've gone through any childhood trauma, it makes you lose your essence and it takes a while to get that back. There are certain things about that that push my buttons.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five kids. So I had the great advantage of being able to play up to the older kids and play down to the younger kids and I think that's part of what propelled me to become a teacher at some point in my life. But it was a comfortable childhood. It was a privileged childhood.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

You get some really unlikely friendships on 'Big Brother' and that's one of the joys of it.

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.