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
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
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
On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second. — Elizabeth Taylor 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
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. — Alice Meynell 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 think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy. — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so… — Rhea Perlman 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
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
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And… — Charles Addams 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
Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our… — Robert Crais 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
“[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
I was able to draw a lot from my own childhood, my friends' childhoods as well and my daughters' friends who are… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods? — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it. — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
“The fragile and ancient hurt that seeps out of adults when they speak of wronged childhoods.” — Martin Roper 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
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's… — Barbra Streisand 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
“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
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
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