Quotes of: Childhoods Keyword

It was soon after that I, overwhelmed with the implications of that memory, overdosed - well, somebody did but as it was my mouth and my stomach that was involved I had to take the consequences. Somehow or other (did an alter ring him?) Bruce (from m...

Am I a Good Girl Yet?: Childhood Abuse Had Shattered Her. What Would It Take to Make Her Whole?

Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood.” Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he wondered if this whol...

Shipstar

Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the factory, and "progress" to define its parameters as on that intangible but much lauded entity called nature. In...

The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally...

Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, because people don't have leaves. Lola writes, When the sun is beating down, they bite everything, even the wind. And we all have leaves. Leaves fall off wh...

The Land of Green Plums

...even a poisoned, desolate childhood can be missed.

Fuse

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Lydia M. Child

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Pindar

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

Neal Cassady

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

Lou Ferrigno

Childhood is a slum and they love it.

Your Blue Eyed Boy

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

Dylan Lauren

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Peter Shaffer

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

Rachel Boston

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Rebecca Harding Davis

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

Ted Naifeh

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

Kevin Nealon

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

Mona Rodriguez

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.'

Michael K. Williams

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

Conor Oberst