George Eliot Quotes

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

George Eliot

• Childhood
• Meaning
• Retrospect

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• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Write
  • Tend
  • Retrospect

• I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Religion
  • Search
  • Meaning

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Blessing

• I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Live
  • Free
  • Childhood

• I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Beautiful
  • Childhood
  • Child

• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Age
  • Study
  • Childhood

• I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Live
  • Childhood
  • Kid

• Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Meaning
  • Rights

• I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood like we had. We went to school by the school bus, had school food... There was no special treatment given to us. The same applies to my children as well.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Children
  • School
  • Food

• I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Up
  • Childhood

• I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Up
  • Different
  • Childhood

• This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Country
  • Children
  • Future

• Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Age
  • Passion
  • Childhood

• I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • Manager

• Sometimes you do get tired in the business from all the traveling. No one outside of the business realizes what we go through. ... Sometimes you don't mean to be unkind, but sometimes you're tired and do things you don't mean. I know the real fans understand.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Real
  • Business
  • Tired

• I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water we drink contains poison, our cultures are systematically replaced by "anti-culture", history is a big lie, et cetera et cetera. Of all the options I chose to start this blog, to spread dissent, to tell others - yes Burzum fans too - that there is an alternative to all of this.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Culture
  • Running
  • Water

• Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

  

  George Eliot
  • Childhood
  • Meaning
  • Retrospect