Quotes About Childhood

don't remember when Berkshire started growing to a point at which he was in a different league," said Emilie. "I think my parents were really private. They didn't want publicity. My dad was a creature of habit so everything was exactly the same. We never had a feeling we were growing up in some rich household.

An infant's smile was the greatest promise that the world would go on, no matter how much the grown-ups mucked around with it.

She felt like a kid on a ride at the amusement part, half thrilled, half scared spitless.

My schoolmates hurried home the way they always did, the bold kids scuffling and shouting and the timid, gawky ones yearning toward a brief return to their real lives in which they were their mamas' treasures instead of the dull, easily bullied children they impersonated at school.

We used to terrorize our babysitters when I was little, except for my grandfather because he used to read to us from his will.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Although I was reared on a junkyard by parents who did not waste time hiking or camping, I knew pine trees and pitcher plants, bobcats and brown thrashers, as my people.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently

CÂND AR TREBUI S? ÎNCEAP? UN COPIL s? mearg? ?i s? vorbeasc?? Atunci când începe s? mearg? ?i s? vorbeasc?. ?i când ar trebui s?-i ias? din?ii? Exact atunci atunci când încep s?-i ias?. Iar fontanela, de asemenea, ar trebui s? se osifice exact atunci când se osific?. Iar sugarul ar trebui s? doarm? atâtea ore pe zi, câte îi trebuie s? se simt? odihnit.

It's like the songs small children sing. 'Shit and piss. And blood, and sperms and slime and vomit and pus and snot and sweat.

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I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

When I was a little boy, I used to work in a sweatshop. We made deodorant.

I had accepted beatings, loneliness, and near-starvation as normal because those things had helped me to survive. Now when these women undressed me, it felt like they were removing a shield that had become a part of me. As they peeled off layer after layer, I began to feel my age and started crying. With my tears I shed each fiber of responsibility I had in caring for my sisters and brother. I was finally being cared for as a child, and so the child inside me opened wide.

What happened to you as an infant and young child powerfully shapes how you see yourself and other people, what expectations you have for relationships, how you feel about yourself, and what defensive (and healthy!) habits you've learned.

If the child's unique qualities are not mirrored or supported, they are not available for her as a foundation. Instead of becoming grounded in her own nature, she adapts to what she thinks she is supposed to be, taking on a false self. For some people, this false self (which we all have to some degree) so obscures everything else that it's all they know.

Just by gazing into the child's eyes, the mother communicates brain to brain with her child, bringing the child's limbic system into coherence with hers. (This is helpful when Mother is in a positive, regulated state but not when she is fussy and upset herself.)

When children are not shamed for undeveloped skills but rather are loved quite fully just for being who they are, then competence becomes less important.

These might include the ability to form close and trusting bonds, to reach out, to initiate, to achieve, to belong to a group, to develop self-confidence, to receive help and encouragement, even to have a happy childhood.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

With comedy and wanting to make people laugh,] when you're a child, all you want is ANY kind of laugh. You get them to laugh, and great! - you've succeeded. And then it's "How FAST can I get them to laugh?" "How LONG can I get them to laugh?", "How HARD can I get them to laugh?". And then it becomes: "Can I laugh at something that makes them uncomfortable?", "Can I get them to laugh at something that challenges their beliefs?

I see her every night," Teddy says. "She sleeps under my bed so I can hear her singing.