Quotes of: Childhood-memories Keyword

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a childhood that was _not_ like mine. I have no real frame of reference, but when I question strangers I've found that their childhood generally had much less blood in it, and also that stranger...

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (repre...

The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean....I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the words to songs. There was no corner of my brain where you coul...

An American Childhood

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vagu...

A Study in Scarlet

Trauma can have a masking effect.

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

The medium obscured the message.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

There is no such thing as a conservative hero.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

Ferran Adria

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

William H. Macy

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

Gary Numan

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie

One hundred twenty-nine women with documented histories of sexual victimization in childhood were interviewed and asked about abuse history. Seventeen years following the initial report of the abuse, 80 of the women recalled the victimization. One in...

Linda M. Williams

The mental health system is filled with survivors of prolonged, repeated childhood trauma. This is true even though most people who have been abused in childhood never come to psychiatric attention. To the extent that these people recover, they do so...

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

Mark Haddon

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Anita Diament

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

Rachel Dratch

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Raquel Welch

A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

Anatoly Rybakov

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview