Favorite Childhood Quotes
We’re hunting for inspirational quotes for the “nursery” wall right now. I love Allie’s new design of one of her favorite quotes.
Lovely, right?
It’s not very childhood-related, but both Joe and I loved this quote that Maira Kalman (you would remember her from her opinion-paintings-blog that she did for the NYT) wrote on the wall for her wonderful show at the Jewish Museum. (this sneaked photo was the only one I could find, sorry for its odd focus.)
Do you have favorite childhood-spirit quotes? Something that will remind me, midst 3am-diaper change, what I believe in?
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Kristine
Oh, wow! That is so lovely. The type is just darling! <3
Wilson
“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”
— Brian Andreas
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
This whole page-http://thinkexist.com/quotes/like/the_meaning_of_things_lies_not_in_the_things/143869/
PKS
Concur on the loveliness. One of my favorites was an Through the Looking Glass gem.
“I can’t believe THAT!” said Alice.
“Can’t you?” said the Queen in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said, “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!”
Katie Kruis
I can still picture the embroidred mother wearing a long dress and rocking her baby. Beside it was embroidered:
“Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
For babies grow up, we’ve learned to our sorrow
So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.”
This was framed and hung in my childhood room. Whenever I think I’m too busy to rock Carter or Claire to sleep, I think of this…I now understand why my mom needed the reminder