How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees

Quote by Isaac Babel

Topics: Childhood Quotes, Life Quotes

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at...

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at...

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never...

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never...

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being...

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being...

I'm amazed when I see these little 8 year old kids with iPhones. You know...

I'm amazed when I see these little 8 year old kids with iPhones. You know...

I sincerely miss being a kid and being the first one up, watching Saturday morning...

I sincerely miss being a kid and being the first one up, watching Saturday morning...

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with...

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with...

If you never jumped from couch to couch as kid to avoid the lava, then...

If you never jumped from couch to couch as kid to avoid the lava, then...

When I was little and I swallowed a fruit seed I was scared to death...

When I was little and I swallowed a fruit seed I was scared to death...

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the...

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the...

You're a true 90's kid if you've ever heard someone say, 'Get off the phone,...

You're a true 90's kid if you've ever heard someone say, 'Get off the phone,...

I miss the days when you could just push someone into a pool without worrying...

I miss the days when you could just push someone into a pool without worrying...

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality

When I was little I would be so entertained on cartoons and now I sleep...

When I was little I would be so entertained on cartoons and now I sleep...

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not...

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not...

When you're cleaning your room and find your old favorite toy and you immediately remember...

When you're cleaning your room and find your old favorite toy and you immediately remember...

When I was little...I used to think that the moon followed my car.

When I was little...I used to think that the moon followed my car.

Back when I was a kid; The only 'fake' friends we had were invisible ones.

Back when I was a kid; The only 'fake' friends we had were invisible ones.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be