Quotes About Childhood

He'd been so neglected as a child that the withdrawal of love pulled all his emotional triggers, exploding the carapace of narcissism built by his childhood escapism. As

For most men, what's tougher than breaking up is the moment when their ex finally falls out of love with them and lets go, perhaps because it triggers a childhood fear—a psychological terror—of losing the first woman whose love they needed: their mother. And so, as Sheila would recommend, I let myself feel the pain, the loneliness, and the fear, using all my strength as the days pass to keep from giving in and reaching out to Ingrid.

They forget how much they used to love their own parents," she said, "when they were kids.

By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

Can I have a Happy Meal? don't you think you're getting a little old for that? I'm only seven, Dad.

That was the kind of life she'd had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn't worked out that way. Things in life seldom did, she'd come to understand

Rules were about averages, not specifics, and since people were conditioned since childhood to accept rules, it was easy to follow them blindly. To trust in the system. It was easier not to worry about random possibilities. It meant that people didn't have to think about potential consequences, and when the sun was shining on Friday afternoons, they could play Frisbee without a care in the world.

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.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

I'm a Disney fan. Like, seriously, if I see Mickey Mouse, I light up.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

I made my first movie when I was five.

I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.