Childhood

“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.Play is the work of childhood.”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. ”

“My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.”

“Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.”

“There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.”

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”

“ Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.”

“Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis … mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.”

“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”