Quotes About Childhood

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose

When I was a boy, my mom wore a mood ring. When she was in a good mood it turned blue. In a bad mood, it left a big red mark on my forehead. Happy Mother's Day!

I am an only child. I have one sister.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Blue punch buggie!

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didnt know what to do! I'd knock on peoples doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom.

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my rocketship underpants dont help.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child. p26

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible, that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child." (2003, p. 26)

It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You're so innocent in the beginning; you don't know.

I always thought the more fucked-up childhood you have, the better artist you get, because you have more material to work with. I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative.

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

Uno de los aspectos más relevantes en lo que concierne al sistema límbico es la necesidad de contacto físico y de generación de lazos afectivos. Nos tenemos que detener aquí porque este es el punto donde se van a desarrollar la mayor parte de los traumas emocionales que experimentamos los seres humanos y que se proyectan desde la época en la que éramos niños hasta la época en la que ya somos adultos.

One of the problems with growing up for me with liver was that mom always dredged in nice flour and then cooked it until it screamed and begged for mercy.

Nos enseñaron desde niños cómo se forma un cuerpo sus órganos sus huesos sus funciones sus sitios pero nunca supimos de qué estaba hecha el alma