Childhood Quotes - Page 3

Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.

I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

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

I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.

The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we so attached to the dietary fallacies with which we were raised, so afraid to counter the arbitrary laws of eating taught to us in childhood by our misinformed parents, that we cannot alter the course they set us on, even if it leads to our own ruin? Does the prospect of standing apart or encounttering ridicule scare us even from saving ourselves?

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.