Childhood Quote by Sara Shandler

When you grow up, people don't speak the truth. You can see, when you trust people, you help them.

— Miguel Cabrera

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it…

— Alice Miller

“Growing up means situations and people change, problems are bigger, feelings are deeper and the hurt devastating.”

— Bailey

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can…

— Sadie Jones

Part of growing up is realizing the frustrating, heartbreaking truth that intense and sustained long-term effort is needed to effect change.

— Jack Schlossberg

Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an…

— Muriel Barbery

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

“Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes.”

— Alain de Botton

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

— Robin Quivers

“As children, because of our dependency, we experience a sense of being powerless in a world of powerful people. If our home environments are…

— Susan Forward

We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.

— Lynn Grabhorn

“It breaks my heart to think of childhood, everybody bigger and whacking and shouting and teaching you not to reach for anything or look…

— Isabel Miller