Bitter Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon…

— Robert Lepage

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through…

— Graham Greene

My childhood was the worst thing on earth. I'm very lucky to have gotten out of that, but I spent 15 years of my…

— Tana Mongeau

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

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

— Goldie

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the…

— Michael Chabon

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

— Phil McGraw

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what…

— Augusten Burroughs

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm…

— Kate DiCamillo

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

— Columba Bush

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

— Graham Norton