Quotes About Childhood

When you live in chaos as a child, you strive to impose order over the world. Unfortunately, the world refuses to comply, so you have to settle for trying to control yourself, your habitat, and your friends.

They were fodder, but to him they were children, just like he had once been a child. Just like Jack. He had to find Spider. He had to kill him. Child murder had to be punished.

En el fondo, seguía siendo, y siempre sería, una niña tímida que sólo se sentía a gusto en una soledad montaraz.

Dio mio, aiutami!», mormorò. Mai, dalla sua infanzia, aveva pregato. Fulminea lo attraversò l'idea di fermarsi nell'androne di una chiesa che aveva scorto sulla strada. Sì, tornare indietro, inginocchiarsi sui gradini di quella chiesa, implorare Dio!... Ma no, era impossibile, bisognava fare in fretta, fare in fretta!

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child.

He's had a bloody awful childhood. Like I had. Those things get passed on and on.

The whole extraordinary business was over. And I was back where I belonged, where my childhood had condemned me to be, alone, out in the cold without a coat.

I would like to send you to hell. My dear, I live in hell, and have done so since I was a small child. Since I regained my mind I have thought, and dreamt too, of nothing but of killing you. You can do it any time, if you don't mind going to prison.

There had been anguish, fear, indecision, then gradually the brightness of her presence cast beforehand, obliterating all else. Then I was with her and there was strange blankness, and utter calm of delight. Suddenly, down into the furthest crannies of being all was well. It was all so strangely simple too, with a blameless simplicity as of childhood.

It is particularly hard to overcome resentment caused by injustice. And I was so lonely. The bottomless bitter misery of childhood : how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

like a bairn trying tae stay up as late as possible.

Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money.

Tal vez la vejez es otro comienzo, tal vez se pueda volver al tiempo mágico de la infancia, ese tiempo anterior al pensamiento lineal y a los prejuicios, cuando percibía el universo con los sentidos exaltados de un demente y era libre para creer lo increíble y explorar mundos que después, en la época de la razón, desaparecieron.

A los ocho años se había enamorado de Ichimei con la intensidad de los amores de la infancia y de Nathaniel con el amor sereno de la vejez.

I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.

Until he was four, Marcel didn't call her "mother" but "señora." The first words he said were "white wine" in Catalan, spoken in his playpen behind the tavern counter.

Empezó a ahogarse de miedo y claustrofobia, como le ocurría en la infancia, cuando se escondía en su improvisada carpa para escapar de los inmensos peligros del mundo, de la contundente presencia de los humanos, de los olores opresivos y los sonidos atronadores.

el Viejo Pascuero nunca existió, eran los padres quienes compraban los regalos de Navidad.

I am grateful to that unhappy childhood because it provided ample material for my writing. I don't know how novelists with happy childhoods in normal homes manage

La teoría de que la infancia debe ser un período de inocencia plácida no existía entonces, ése fue un invento posterior de los norteamericanos, antes se esperaba que la vida fuera dura y para eso nos templaban los nervios. Los métodos didácticos se fundamentaban en la resistencia: mientras más pruebas inhumanas superaba un crío, mejor preparado estaba para los albures de la edad adulta.

You've completely forgotten what it takes to raise a child, Mr. Bogart. And this girl is traumatized -- she misses her mother, she's been pulled away from everything she knows, her family, her friends, her school, her community, her language. Can you imagine what that must be like?

El sentimiento de soledad arrastrado desde la infancia se hizo aún más agudo, pero me consolaba la vaga esperanza de estar marcada por un destino especial que se me revelaría algún día.

Jaime vio a su madre avanzar por el corredor, descalza, con el pelo suelto en la espalda, arropada con su bata blanca y notó que no era alta y fuerte como la había visto en su infancia.

His adult teeth were still emerging, and when he smiled his eyes seemed to disappear.