Action Quote by Vinoba Bhave

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

— James Hillman

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

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young…

— Alison Gopnik

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't…

— Eileen Myles

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

— Lynn Grabhorn

“Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in…

— Elizabeth Thornton

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I…

— Anonymous

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

— John Locke

“Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?"..."We do…

— Isobelle Carmody

“How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than we would…

— Charlette Mikulka

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

— Ari Graynor