Childhoods Quotes

45 quotes by 42 authors

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father… — Paul Auster
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself… — John le Carre
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the mother protects. But… — Rajneesh
Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to… — Robert Wagner
I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a… — Tory Burch
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war. — Stefan Molyneux
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. — James Hillman
Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can… — Robert Crais
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs… — Charles Addams
As Korn go on, it's the same things - bad childhoods and mean moms. It gets too old after a while. How old is Jonathan?… — Chino Moreno
People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that… — Nigella Lawson
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
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. — Michael Herr
A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if… — Anne Lamott
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do… — James Hillman
We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one. — William Matthews
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a… — Anne Lamott
I see my parents as tiny children who need love. I have compassion for my parentsâ€™ childhoods. I now know that I chose them because… — Louise Hay
Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential — Malala Yousafzai

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