Assumptions Quote by Elizabeth Thornton

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can…

— Sadie Jones

Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I…

— Burgess Meredith

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which…

— Stephen King

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

— Mariella Frostrup

As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different ways.

— Amanda Schull

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the…

— Steven Seagal

In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I…

— Art Spiegelman

“Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience…

— Donald Kalsched

You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world, and then…

— Wyck Godfrey

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that…

— Lillian Hellman

When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost…

— Anonymous