Quotes About Childhood

I probably sound like sixteen going on clinically depressed," says Billy now, "but my childhood hadn't exactly been all noodle salad and laughs.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.

Toys are meant to be played with. Do your best to keep them in decent shape, and that will be good enough.

That pressure you feel is called a conscience," Conor said, holding Rollan in a steady gaze. "I wouldn't know about consciences. My mother didn't teach me much before she abandoned me." "My father rented me as a servant to pay his debts," Conor returned. Rollan couldn't believe this was becoming a competition. "Look, my terrible childhood is all I've got! Don't you dare try to top it.

he was a ten-year-old Chilean kid who liked to play soccer and flirt.

He sat staring at the door for a long time. He wasn't wearing a hat, which meant he had to just be himself. The true him, the one that knew this pain. They'd ridden together on many a dusty path. This pain had been his invisible friend since childhood. The pain of knowing what he really was. The pain of being worthless.

You may have noticed that I began my story with a quick, snappy scene of danger and tension – but then quickly moved on to a more boring discussion of my childhood. Well, that's because I wanted to prove something to you: that I am not a nice person. Would a nice person begin with such an exciting scene, then make you wait almost the entire book to read about it?

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

I was grown-up. I'd packed my own backpack and had left Bloodletter, my stuffed bear, at home. Stuffed bears were for babies, even if you'd fashioned your own mock power armor for yours out of string and broken ceramics.

Syl used to think human children came out through the nose in a particularly violent sneeze

Breehn Burns

Writer Mary Jo Putney says, "What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

The adults I interviewed who were raised by parents who used shame as a primary parenting tool had much more difficulty believing in their worthiness than the participants who experienced shame occasionally and were able to talk about it with their parents.

childhood experiences of shame change who we are, how we think about ourselves, and our sense of self-worth.

The little boy put his finger down but kept an I-am-sizing-you-up look on his little face.

In my childhood I could remember the whole week a damn sight better than I can now for all my family were in the Rising. And they told the stories to such good effect that I was in there with them… Now I have learned enough arithmetic to know that I could not possibly have taken part in an event which happened seven years before I was born, and it saddens me.

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

Trishiffany said. "And your child was the 129,285,656,702nd." "Do you know how many hours I spent sneaking around here in the middle

Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

De repente notó que la vieja confianza que los unía cuando eran niños había desaparecido.

The dread of something menacing that you felt when you were a child returns when you get old.