Childhood Quote by Gregory Maguire

“Is any childhood as terrible or as wonderful as we remember it to be?”

— Monique Martin

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

— Stephen King

“I found out that “Shame is a reaction to other people’s criticism, an acute personal chagrin at our failure to live up to our…

— Paul G. Hiebert

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

“There is no other shame like senseless sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Childhood is a slum and they love it.”

— Helen Dunmore

“Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but…

— François Fénelon

“Why not ask a Loving Parent to help us reclaim our childhood innocence and to live more gently today?”

— Aca Wso Inc

“..numbed by disappointment and betrayal, like a child who had been awakened suddenly from a summer dream about christmas morning.”

— Armistead Maupin

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of…

— Sharon Salzberg

“She thinks I’m a child who needs to be protected from the horrors of grown-ups, because she somehow forgot that the world of children…

— Sam J. Miller

“After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but that was…

— Gary Shteyngart