Childhood Quotes - Page 29

The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case

Childhood is messy and beautiful.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.

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

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

I didn't have a childhood.

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors.

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.

Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.

Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.