Quotes About Childhood

Fair and unfair are for children

Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It's always there underneath. The oldest fear of all.

Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It's always there underneath. The oldest fear of all. What's at the back of the cave?

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Sometimes, when little kids say crazy stuff we got to act like it don't bother us none so they won't clam up and stop talkin' when they get older.

Bring back your innocence and be a child once more, spring back in life. Dance in the rains, prance in your pains, wonder at the stars and romance the skies & get in tune with natural rhythms & get naturalized. Grow and know in the lap of mother nature and be MickeyMized.

As soon as the adult serial killer's fragile ego and self-esteem are threatened by any form of rejection or pain, the original childhood agony is triggered and he feels the irresistible urge to act out this powerful fantasy, which is the only way he perceives to restore the psychological imbalance.

the father figure was perhaps physically, and definitely emotionally, absent when the boy was in his latency phase. As a boy, therefore, the serial killer had no positive father figure with whom to identify.

serial killers report themselves as very lonely children who felt alienated and isolated from their peers. During their latency phases they did not learn to socialise, they did not learn to empathise with others and they did not incorporate moral and ethical values.

Simons admitted to being sodomised as a young boy, during which he was the passive victim. The only way he could master this abuse was by repeating it, and by identifying with his tormentor by becoming the active aggressor. He reversed the passive-active roles.

I asked her where the posters in his room came from. She told me she had found some magazines in the forest at a spot where some soldiers had camped and had brought them home. This was shortly before the sexual murders started. I believe those pin-ups were the catalyst that triggered the fantasy that had been brewing inside Zikode since his childhood. His mother had unwittingly lit the tinder which had erupted into a blaze and cost many women their lives.

By sodomising the boys, Wilken fell into the typical pattern of passive-active role reversal by identifying with the aggressor and selecting a victim like himself. When he sodomised and strangled 12-year-old Henry Bakers he even told Henry that he was going to do to him what was done to himself when he was a child of Henry's age.

It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer. The process commences during the first five years of his life, whereafter he nurtures the most horrendous sexual and aggressive fantasies in which other human beings are subjugated to mere objects.

Psychoanalysis regards bed-wetting and fire-setting as well as cruelty to animals as a child's revenge and mental self-defence mechanism against parental abuse, be it physical, sexual or emotional.

As a young boy he was terrorised by his peers who teased him about the fact that he was adopted.

I predicted that he would have been sodomised as a boy when he was the same age as the victims. Serial killers do what was done to them either directly or in a symbolic manner.

Like all serial killers, Bongani's father was emotionally absent to him as a little boy. He never had the chance to identify with a father figure at the beginning of the latency phase, which should commence at about six years. This is the time when children go to school, socialise and incorporate society's moral and ethical values and this marks the development of a conscience, or superego as Freud called it.

Serial killers are not born evil, they develop into killers as a consequence of what happens to them during their childhood years. The tragedy of serial killers lies in the dichotomy that they feel compelled to kill innocent strangers in order to express their own pain and anger. It is an existential manifestation to them.

As soon as the adult serial killer's fragile ego and self-esteem are threatened by any form of rejection or pain, the original childhood agony is triggered and he feels the irresistible urge to act out this powerful fantasy, which is the only way

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it."

I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.

De la cuna nos viene la tristeza y también de la cuna la alegría...

it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.