Childhood Quotes - Page 44

The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.

This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.

Women's childhood relationships with their fathers are important to them all their lives. Regardless of age or status, women who seem clearest about their goals and most satisfied with their lives and personal and family relationships usually remember that their fathers enjoyed them and were actively interested in their development.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading in my childhood were selling some sort of fantasy as well. Most stories are not going to tell the deep suffering of every day. No book prepared me for the suffering I would experience in life because the word "suffering" does not even describe what the suffering is. No story is going to tell you that, and no words can tell you that.

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.

I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

I’m telling you right now I could make him pop an aneurysm and no one would know. (Nero) Doesn’t that kind of murder bother you at all? (Alix) Given everything people have done to me in my life, little girl, especially in my childhood when I was helpless against them, humanity is lucky I’m not on a perpetual killing spree. As for the Merjacks…I owe them a debt that no amount of violence on my part will settle. So, no. Nothing about killing him would bother me. (Nero)

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

Ever since (childhood), I realized that one of the coolest things in the game is scoring touchdowns. And I think mentally that still drives me.

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me.

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.