Adults Quote by Maurice Sendak

In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I…

— Art Spiegelman

“I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In…

— Maurice Sendak

Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.

— Christine and the Queens

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I…

— Isabel Allende

My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images of other…

— Hilary Mantel

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

My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying…

— Charlaine Harris

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

— Alex Hirsch

My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I…

— Stephen King

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know…

— Aimee Bender

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know…

— Andrew Hudgins

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is…

— Samantha Morton