Quotes about childhood
childhood fear ghosts interest shape taiwanese
My interest in the potency of fear comes from my Taiwanese childhood in which fear of ghosts was used to shape my values.
childhood dollars early education forward looks teacher
Obviously, we want to see more dollars put to early childhood education and . . . teacher salaries. He looks forward to working the differences out.
childhood young
Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand. Jane Wagner
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood feelings would-be
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
childhood kept lost personal
I lost my childhood. That's where I kept all my personal scrapbooks and pictures. They can't be replaced.
childhood dream life lived taking
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. Bernard Berenson
childhood growing nasty
I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood.
childhood growing happens memories next stay
Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. The Years
childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood healthy psychology
What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me. Bryant H. McGill
childhood watches film
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience. Aimee Mullins
childhood aging
The old are in a second childhood. Aristophanes
childhood age old-age
Old age is second childhood.
childhood romance despair
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Edmund Burke
childhood entire observing spent
I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do. Elif Safak
childhood nobody
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. Edna St. Vincent Millay
childhood happy-childhood
I had a happy childhood. Alastair Campbell
childhood mind burning
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. Andre Breton
childhood
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry. Andrei Tarkovsky
childhood pledge ripe
A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. Amos Bronson Alcott
childhood nursery made
Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
childhood waiting here-and-there
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up. Anthony Doerr
childhood modern britain
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence Anthony Daniels
childhood house body
At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house. Anne Sexton
childhood jersey denver
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. Anita Diament
childhood trying wish
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible. Alice Miller
childhood parent survival
I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.
childhood wish behinds
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. Alice Hoffman
childhood way persons
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.
childhood return investing
Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high. Anne M. Mulcahy
childhood elevators stairs
I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator. Drew Barrymore