Quotes about childhood
childhood poor violent
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. Patrick Stewart
childhood house towns
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks Patty Duke
childhood what-if doe
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential? Heidi Julavits
childhood firsts facts
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love. Jo Nesbo
childhood ashes happy-childhood
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Frank McCourt
childhood catholic ordinary
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
childhood alive moments
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. John Lydon
childhood playing-music wanted
Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. John Legend
childhood sorrow forget
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature. Phyllis McGinley
childhood curiosity states
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity. Rachel Cusk
childhood want direct
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. Peter Jackson
childhood world kingdoms
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood. Peter Cameron
childhood
My childhood was appalling. Taylor Caldwell
childhood three months
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition. Tammy Baldwin
childhood london done
Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London. Tracy Chevalier
childhood house happy-childhood
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. Tracy Kidder
childhood extremes
My childhood was extreme. Tori Amos
childhood crime teach
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood. Richard Dawkins
childhood way remember
I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building. Renzo Piano
childhood challenges determined
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined. Sam Taylor-Wood
childhood normal wanted
I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships. Tommy Rettig
childhood independence adults
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. Sonia Sotomayor
childhood heroines
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. Sophie Kinsella
childhood miserable folks
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life. Tim Conway
childhood hated whole
I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me. Sandra Bullock
childhood trying rest-of-your-life
Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.
childhood catharsis wounds
Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood. Sarah Ruhl
childhood
My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change. Sadie Frost
childhood slavery may
Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection. Robertson Davies
childhood belief spoiled
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
childhood
I had a great childhood. Tom Felton
childhood fantastic repeats
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic. Vanessa Paradis
childhood made novel
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. V. S. Pritchett