As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
Pouring soda into the cap when you were younger and acting like you were taking shots. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“One day he would finish the job of dying he'd begun in childhood/” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The intensity with which a person resists discussing their childhood is first evidence of how painful it was. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire. — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
We were basically camping my whole childhood because we were so poor. — Bretman Rock Copy Share Image
“I've never understood people who remember childhood as an idyllic time.” — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood,… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
One of my favorite Finals was actually Detroit vs. Los Angeles, because it was home and home for me, personally. It was… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My listeners have been so respectful. I do have a boundary for myself. I only talk about one of my childhood best… — Alex Cooper Copy Share Image
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking,… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
“you’ll find the buildings taller, that the halls are full of ghosts but everything still here is what you remember most” — Savannah Brown Copy Share Image
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.” — Richard Blackaby Copy Share Image
I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood. — Elena Roger Copy Share Image
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood. — Arnold Gesell Copy Share Image
“I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...” — C.J. Heck Copy Share Image
What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood. — Deborah Davis Copy Share Image
My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland! — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake. — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity. — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
“One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
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