Quotes about childhood
childhood goes-on able
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. V. S. Naipaul
childhood gregarious close-family
My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family. Stephen Mangan
childhood neurosis
Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis Sigmund Freud
childhood gold fascination
Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood. Sigmund Freud
childhood religion neurosis
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. Sigmund Freud
childhood streets highways
My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway. Steven Morrissey
childhood world achieve
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything. Sue Grafton
childhood paddling soup
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me. Sue Monk Kidd
childhood my-favorite
Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life. Roz Chast
childhood adults
I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood. Umberto Eco
childhood age matter
It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese. Rick Steves
childhood wish spending
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. Ricky Schroder
childhood parent dumb
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech. Richard Griffiths
childhood stories remember
The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. Stephen King
childhood kind scene
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. Soren Kierkegaard
childhood parent kind
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents. W. P. Kinsella
childhood firsts steps
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. Ursula K. Le Guin
childhood disease sickness
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. William Golding
childhood bliss knows
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. William Gaddis
childhood way different
I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways. Wil Wheaton
childhood age peculiar
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode. Will Self
childhood
Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process. Zachary Quinto
childhood five-senses lost
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood... Yves Klein
childhood actors good-childhood
Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood. William H. Macy