Childhood Quotes
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I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years.
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The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.
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When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie. So, working for Disney was really a childhood dream come true.
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I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.
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There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.
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I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.
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I feel as if I spent my childhood in a world of images, basically in a world cut off from action.
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Twenty or 30 years ago, psychiatrists and other physicians believed that childhood was a happy time. We had a belief that psychiatric disorders didn't begin until a child reached puberty or after. That wasn't based on science. It was based on the philosophical sense that children are always happy.
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An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
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There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.
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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
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And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
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From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.
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I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
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I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.
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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
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My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
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The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
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The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
