Quotes About Childhood

We then spend our lives not seeing what we saw . The picture is there: what we know when we're small; when we are small, we know everything in a childlike way.

When I was five years old I fell head downward into an empty cistern and was not found until six hours later, at which time I was quietly eating dirt. The year after that I fell out of a neighbor's barn loft. These experiences constitute an adequate preparation for a career in journalism — the equivalent of four years in college

I only half realised at the time how lucky I was. I had a demanding, round-the-clock job, and yet I had the company of my children at the same time. So many men work so hard to keep the home going that they lose touch with the families who are at the heart of it, but it never happened to me. Both Jimmy and Rosie, until they went to school, spent most of their time with me round the farms.

VieÈ›ile noastre sunt modelate mai puÈ›in de experienÈ›a copil?riei propriu-zis?, cât de maniera în care am fost înv??aÈ›i s? ne-o imagin?m. Suntem mai puÈ›in traumatizaÈ›i (...) de întâmpl?rile copil?riei, cât de maniera traumatizant? în care ne amintim copil?ria.

Noi suntem inventaÈ›i pe m?sur? ce ne tr?im viaÈ›a, deÈ™i evenimentele aleatorii ale zilelor noastre nu par s? urmeze un curs coerent. Firul narativ iese la iveal? abia la momentul reamintirii. Copil?ria are sens doar când privim retrospectiv. Doar atunci când privim retrospectiv, printre crengile arborelui, vedem realitatea ghindei.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal calling in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents . . . have not lived." Carl Jung

I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, No, but he and Ken got married last week. Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

Dress the pussy for her nighty and follow her piggytails up their way to Winkyland.

He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur.

IF YOU ARE a parent, you know the following to be true: Even though your child has grown into adulthood, you never see the man or the woman; you see only the little boy or the little girl.

My siblings and I spent hours playing tricks and teasing one another. It was our way of dealing with realities over which we had no control.

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

do you ever have dirty thoughts about spongebob?

Jane-Sweetie, we've talked about your weight- my mother began. I'm only eight years old, I said. How about I promise to be anorexic later?

He was already a sociopath, and he was just out of kinder-garten. I didn't think much of it at the time. It was the family way.

Stevie Kosgrov recently enjoyed a bowl of Fruity Pebbles (with milk that had hit its expiration date, oh, maybe a month ago).

FUNNYHURRICANEKID.

We heard from two bozos who I didn't know, then a guy named Matt Kruschik who ate his own boogers until fourth grade

My father left when I was four and Georgia was two. That was about a year after Leo died. Once he was gone, we never heard from him again. End of story.

The real Leonardo was my twin brother. He got sick and died when we were both three years old. It was really sad, for sure, but it was also a long time ago. I barely remember any of it. The point is, I've always wondered what Leo would be

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.