I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare. . . The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them. . . Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine. . . when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.
Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there are so many ruptures and disturbances in childhood that imprint themselves on us. Attachment begets trauma, in that broader sense, and so if we've ever been dependent on anyone, I think there is an Imago blueprint in us somewhere.
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep fear for most people. I'm not scared of death but I'm scared of dying scared. Maybe everything else in life comes from those two points: the separation anxiety of childhood and the ultimate fear of dying alone.
I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.
What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.