Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods? — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it. — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods? — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy. — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
My parents came out of Glasgow during the Depression and both - particularly my father - had very tough childhoods. They fought… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized… — Leslie Le Mon Copy Share Image
I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who… — Eric Wilson Copy Share Image
One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that… — Mark Goddard Copy Share Image
Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
We just thought of 'Boosh' as an extension of our childhoods in a way, the stuff we had grown up on and… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“No one had to explain to me the power our childhoods had over us, even when we fought like hell against them.” — Amy Engel Copy Share Image
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.' — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's very surreal. It seems like everywhere I go, people always talk about 'Indiana Jones,' and I realized over the years it… — Jonathan Ke Quan Copy Share Image
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My… — Gabriel Basso Copy Share Image
“The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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