Brain Quote by Mary Gauthier

For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.

— Ariel Levy

When I was 13, I came back from summer camp - summer of '74 - and my mother had had an accident during surgery…

— Andrew Zimmern

My mom literally saved my life. I wasn't supposed to make it out of the orphanage.

— Oksana Masters

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

— Joel Grey

When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing. The cord had cut…

— LaMarcus Aldridge

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and…

— John Lydon

My childhood was so traumatic.

— Tana Mongeau

It was traumatic but exhilarating to feel what my father felt. I remember the ache of the separation from the people I loved. I…

— Nate Saint

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that…

— Robert Carlyle

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

— Vidal Sassoon

I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps,…

— Stephen Fry

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the…

— Panos Cosmatos