Our Childhood Quotes

70 quotes by 61 authors

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a… — John le Carre
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining… — Judith Viorst
Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts, taken one by one. It… — Henry Edward Manning
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up… — Vincent Canby
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. — Robert Breault
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me… — Natasha Richardson
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art,… — Michael Morpurgo
We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. — Harville Hendrix
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. — Frank Herbert
Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately… — Doug Henning
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days… — Marcel Proust
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can… — Alice Miller
I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people we loved, or… — Kathryn Tucker Windham
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think,… — Rita Dove
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. — James Hillman
When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence… — Harry Hay
How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is… — Gaston Bachelard
Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food… — Homaro Cantu
Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the… — Harville Hendrix
I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke. — Yasmin Mogahed

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