Quotes About Childhood

Raised in the Episcopal church, I was once removed from my pew, at age six, because I could not control my weeping. Unbeknownst to anyone, I had been staring at a terrible, glorious stained-glass window of the crucifixion and grieving for the pain Christ must have endured. The arresting mosaic of that forlorn image etched itself indelibly upon me. And yet at some point, I became emotionally and empathically detached.

No. My family lived back in Ohio. Still does, I reckon. I ain't seen 'em since I was twelve.

Everything was going along just fine until Mama caught me cutting out of the circles of tin with her scissors. I always swore she could find the biggest switches of any woman in the Ozarks.

When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

Demelza bent to examine the cow—with a professionalism of manner that came from her seven years at Nampara, not at all from her Illogan childhood.

The sense of separateness from others, of loneliness, had not often been so strong as that morning. He wondered if there was any true content in life, if all men were as troubled as he with a sense of disillusion. It had not always been so. His childhood had been happy enough in the unthinking way that childhoods are.

he was deeply annoyed at having to leave the fair before he was drunk, a thing that had never happened to him since he was ten.

this furtive childhood, this concealed degradation is ready to explode your systems sooner or later.

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

The doctor asked Dylan if she had been abused. Dylan said no. Mia took her "for ice cream" and returned to the doctor's office, where the seven-year-old had somehow changed her story.

When she grew up, no drinking her orange juice or chocolate milk out of glasses that were once Yahrzeit candles.

Moses says, "Those conclusions perfectly match my own childhood experience: coaching, influencing, and rehearsing are three words that sum up exactly how my mother tried to raise us.

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed.

Kids had made fun of him in elementary school because his father wanted him to be literate, not just functionally literate, or 'iconerate,' the new term for those who went through life using only symbols and key words for written communication.

My father, who has derived such happiness from his childhood, found in me the companion with who, he could return there.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.

Stuart calls me the Milkybar Kid.

The next year, when he'd won first prize for spelling and was given a wooden pencil-case whose sliding top doubled as a ruler, Mrs Wilson had rubbed the top of his head and praised him, as though he was one of her own. 'You're a credit to yourself,' she'd told him. And for a whole day or more, Furlong had gone around feeling a foot taller, believing, in his heart, that he mattered as much as any other child.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.