Beaten Quote by Tim Conway

I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was…

— James Hillman

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow…

— Juan Gabriel

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

— Frank McCourt

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood…

— Frank McCourt

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood…

— Frank McCourt

“Throughout my entire miserable childhood I woke at least once a night weeping from overwhelming delight. I did it hungry, I did it after…

— Bob Thurber

I felt so miserable for my whole childhood. All my parents could do was try their best.

— Chappell Roan

“Looking around, I wondered why Halliday, who always claimed to have had a miserable childhood, had later become so nostalgic for it. I knew…

— Ernest Cline

“I was sick of my miserable childhood, too, the way it followed me across the Atlantic and kept nagging at me to be made…

— Frank McCourt

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people,…

— James Laughlin

It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain - it's just a…

— Kate Pierson

I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if…

— John Malkovich