Quotes About Childhood

Volvió a mi mente una rima infantil de mi infancia - la rima de los diez soldaditos. Me había fascinado cuando era un niño de dos años - la inexorable mengua - la sensación de lo inevitable. Empecé, en secreto, a coleccionar víctimas...

one of the best things that can happen to you is, i think, a happy childhood.

Attention all kitchen utensils, unfinished books, "useless childhood artifacts," and general household objects: take heed. Colette Yates is nesting. None of you are safe.

Maybe what we can do when we feel overwhelmed is to start small. Start with what we have loved as kids and see where that leads us.

I'll tell you what else fucks with a kid's optimism and sense of stability: when your parents fight all the time. That shit can really suck. Listening to your parents yell, or cry, or stomp off in anger, or worse, that deafening silence that falls over a home when the two biggest residents aren't speaking to each other, and only reply in jagged monotone when the kids ask for seconds or beg to be excused from the dinner table—that is damaging

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

When I was small, it seems that I was very weak and sickly. My father used to complain about this state of affairs in spite of the fact that "we had the yokozuna [champion sumo wrestler] Umegatani hold you in his arms when you were a baby so that you would grow strong.

And then what?" I asked. "Her father at last understood my feeling," claims Uekusa. "And what happened with the girl after that?" I queried. "Never saw her again, but we were just kids anyway." I think I understand and yet I don't.

Perhaps because I was just a child, I didn't perceive the slightest specter of our dark militarism.

ORDINARILY, children are supposed to spend their childhood like saplings sheltered in a greenhouse. Even if on occasion some wind or rain of the real world slips in through the cracks, a child is not supposed to be weatherbeaten in earnest by the sleet and snow.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

In fact, it's not until about the age of four or five that it even occurs to children that deception is possible. There's no point in lying if everybody knows what you're thinking!

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six.

I knew I wanted to act from when I was five, and I started studying seriously when I was six and seven. Not with anybody else, but I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

A four-year-old may believe that her thoughts also have the power to affect what happens to others, and so she will feel guilty should misfortune befall someone about whom she has had an angry thought.

Had I not had the childhood I did, would these traits not be so at the forefront of my personality? Who knows? All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad, and if I am in a happy place in my life (as I truly am), then I can have no regrets about any of the combination of events and circumstances that have led me to the here and now.

I realized that I was living my life backwards. I had to be a grown-up when I'd been a little boy, and now I was tending to the little boy who'd never had the chance to properly play… Had I not had the childhood I did, would these traits not be so at the forefront of my personality? Who knows? All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad.

We both lacked the same thing in our childhoods - the love of a father... We both sought to fill that lack in our adult lives with family and love, as everyone does, but also with thrills and sometimes periods of recklessness. Luckily, I have always come back from my recklessness. Tommy Darling did not.

So it's not that every second of my childhood was filled with doom. But every second was filled with the possibility that in an instant my father's mood would plunge into irrationality, rage, and ultimately violence. This very feeling, this possibility, is what darkens the part of my mind where my childhood stories live.

Little Mariano was at home, getting fat

It was all Ray could do not to pee his green pants.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

The crippled child is not conscience of the handicap implied by his useless legs. Though often inconvenient or annoying, but he is confident that it will never prevent him from doing what he wants to do or being whatever he wishes to be. If he considers them a handicap its because he has been told they are. Children make no distinction between the one who's lame or the one who has use of all his limbs.