Quotes about childhood
childhood ashes happy-childhood
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Frank McCourt
childhood catholic ordinary
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
childhood firsts facts
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love. Jo Nesbo
childhood what-if doe
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential? Heidi Julavits
childhood alive moments
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. John Lydon
childhood playing-music wanted
Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. John Legend
childhood monsters detachment
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous John le Carre
childhood remember
It's just like anything -- they want to remember their childhood.
childhood compare difficult lead life objective perspective portray
It's very difficult to be objective about one's childhood because you have no perspective on it. I have nothing to compare it with. The only way I can lead any kind of a comparative life is to portray other men. Ben Kingsley
childhood free kids people remember run walk
It's not the childhood that we remember from the '50s and '60s. Kids are not free to run around. (And) people just don't walk the way they used to at all.
childhood last prettiest
It's the prettiest place on the planet, ... My childhood was like a dream. It's like the last Mayberry. Greg Behrendt
childhood education provides relief retirement savings tax
It provides tax relief ... from the childhood years to the education years, from the savings years to the retirement years,
childhood dream
It's a childhood dream to be in the final, Guillermo Coria
childhood college hear life rough send time whether
There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough. Ellen Greene
childhood cloud dark hung intended prospect
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind. Nikola Tesla
childhood milk praise
A babe is fed with milk and praise. Charles Lamb
childhood individual disposition
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. Carl Jung
childhood decision able
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do. Dido Armstrong
childhood identity important
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity. Ayad Akhtar
childhood amusement painful-moments
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture. Aisha Tyler
childhood known
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. Beverly Cleary
childhood mourning lost
We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood. David Elkind
childhood forms found glad none nostalgia
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over. Alan Bennett