Beauty Quote by Katherine Heiny

“Being a child was not fun for me.”

— Alex Witchel

“I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset,…

— Bette Midler

“It turns out that the things I hated most as a child are the same things that serve me the most as an adult.”

— Kevin Hart

“I wasn't exactly good with children. I wasn't bad with them, as such. I just wasn't around them much and, because of that, when…

— Kristen Ashley

“Children were very cruel and made fun of me. I could tell you many stories of times I was treated badly, and although the…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things . . .”

— Emma Chase

“I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was not a…

— Ariel Levy

“I've found that child's play -stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy- was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do…

— Matt Groening

“I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me…

— James Joyce

“That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and…

— Cecelia Ahern

“So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami