The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.
Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
Interpersonal tensions can provide opportunities that transform an early childhood curriculum from pre-primary preparedness to sites of political practice.
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.
The Summit of the Americas is an excellent platform to raise awareness and secure commitments from heads of state and different sector leaders regarding Early Childhood Development.
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.
