Childhood Quote by Ishmael Beah Download Open image “My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.” — Ishmael Beah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Frozen Gone Heart Knowing My heart
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I… — David James Duncan Copy Share
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I felt like someone had ripped my heart out and tossed it across the other side of the room. There was a burning, agonizing… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I still remember the world through the eyes of a child. Suddenly those feelings were clouded by what I know now. — Evanescence Copy Share Image
“At night it felt as if we were walking with the moon. It followed us under thick clouds and waited for us at the… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“I learned that you are not free until you stop others from making you feel worthless. Because if you do not, you will eventually… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed. — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling.… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more” — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy. — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
