Childhood Quotes - Page 49

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival. The critic really started as a survivor mechanism in early infancy and childhood when we were trying to navigate our early family system and culture; when we're learning how to fit in so we could optimize that flow of love and affection. It was an internal voice telling us to shut certain patterns and reactions down, that negativity bias that's always looking for what's wrong, looking for the threat.

More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.