Quotes About Childhood

Mma Ramotswe smiled at her old friend. You can go through life and make new friends every year -- every month practically -- but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel. She reached out and touched Dr. Maketsi on the arm, gently, as old friends will sometimes do when they have nothing more to say.

We should all have a tree in our childhood...a tree one might explore, a tree from which one might learn how to fall.

This girl, now in her early teens, had never had a photograph of herself. There was no record of her childhood, nothing which would remind her of what she used to be. There was nothing, no image, of which she could say: That is me. And all this meant that there was nobody who had ever wanted her picture; she had simply not been special enough.

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.

Usually bullies have severe mothers and bad fathers, and they are usually frightened of them. That is why they are bullies, I think. There is something wrong at home. I have found that with children in general and this applies to men as well.

Tell him your parents have strictly forbidden you to play for anything but nuts.

Toasted tobacco, no additives,' I said. 'Yum. Tastes like childhood.

If nature didn't whittle down your network to a smaller number of strongly forged connections, you would never become an adult. You would remain a permanent child, frozen in sensory overload.

All night I was awake with useless sympathy what use is childhood that falls to its death

But there is probably nothing in the world as determined as a child with a dream

From his earliest years, Alfred Hitchcock was a loner and a watcher, an observer rather than a participant. "I don't remember ever having a playmate," he recalled as an adult. At family gatherings: "I would sit quietly in a corner, saying nothing. I looked and observed a great deal. I've always been that way and still am. I was anything but expansive. I was a loner—can't even remember having had a playmate. I played by myself, inventing my own games.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences are on alert. It's a habit they learned in childhood, when they couldn't be sure when they'd face the next high-tension situation. After her terrifying childhood illness, Michele never felt at peace, or whole, as an adult: "I was afraid I could be blindsided by any small medical crisis that could morph and change my entire life.

Imagine for a moment that your body receives its stress hormones and chemicals through an IV drip that's turned on high when needed, and when the crisis passes, it's switched off again. Now think of it this way: kids whose brains have undergone epigenetic changes because of early adversity have an inflammation-promoting drip of fight-or-flight hormones turned on high every day—and there is no off switch.

kids whose brains have undergone epigenetic changes because of early adversity have an inflammation-pro-mot- drip of fight-or-flight hormones turned on high every day—and there is no off switch.

When the HPA stress axis is overloaded in childhood or the teenage years, it leads to long-lasting side effects—not just because of the impact stress has on us at that time in our lives, but also because early chronic stress biologically reprograms how we will react to stressful events for our entire lives. That

Most psychologists agree that a child has to develop a secure attachment with at least one primary caregiver in order to learn how to effectively regulate her own emotions for the rest of her life, and in order to learn how to become attached in a healthy way in adult relationships.

Or, as Bernie Siegel, MD, puts it, quite simply, after half a century of practicing medicine, "I have become convinced that our number-one public health problem is our childhood." The

The British story of Peter Pan is about a boy who never grows up and plays all day.

Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered. I read. Dark signs that crawled toward the edge of the page. It took me years to grow a heart from paper and glue. All I had was a flashlight, bright as the moon, a white hole blazing beneath the sheets.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

If the way of spiritual childhood became general, who does not see how easily would be realized the reformation of human society. . .

Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.

Doesn't it seem hard, Oliver, that as children, when we'll take any mould, we should be formed for the rest of our lives by small things that don't really matter in themselves at all? My grievance is that the Lockwoods were silly, selfish, snobbish, creatures with no single saving grace—except, perhaps, Clare—and yet I minded about them.