Famous quotes containing the words early childhood, early, childhood and/or center:
“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“Indeed, my mother’s beautiful face still shone with youthfulness that night when she so softly held my hands and sought to stop my tears; but, precisely, it seemed to me that this should not have happened, her anger would have saddened me less than this new sweetness that my childhood had never known; it seemed to me that, with a hidden and impious hand, I had just traced the first wrinkle and made appear the first grey hair in her soul.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)