Darius Milhaud famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.
I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
I had a happy childhood.
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a bookâ€”that string of confused, alien ciphersâ€”shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...

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