“From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.” WantMindLittlesAnimalBoysImagineChildhoodChangedGrewBecomingAmbitionImpressionJungleLittle BoysExplorersWild AnimalEarly Childhood Author:John Goddard
“Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.” FeelingsParentChildhoodBecomingNegativeFilledSomething NewBecoming A Parent Author:Mariska Hargitay
“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.” ChildrenTodayFatherGrowsGrowing UpGenerationsChildhoodBecomingFeaturesRoughFatherhoodDefiningParityFatherlessFatherlessness Author:David Blankenhorn
“My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!” ChildhoodReaderBecomingLibraryLocalsSuburbsSan Diego Author:Tess Gerritsen
“What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."” IfsSeemsEnergyChildhoodBecomingNormalOur ChildrenDown AndStriveInevitableAnxiousHierarchyBecoming More Author:Gloria Steinem
“I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible sources for poetry. One is dreams, and the other is childhood. I think childhood is an inexhaustible source of your becoming who you will be and certain deep feelings are set inside of you.” ThinkingWaySaidTwoFeelingsDreamCertainChildhoodSourceBecomingShapesVery DeepDeep Feeling Author:Edward Hirsch
“My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.” PeopleFirstsMadeTwoChristianLeftBitsChurchCitiesAudienceGroupsChildhoodBecomingCitizensInvolvedUnderstoodRootsTraditionalSymbolsMake SenseOrganizedAssociationSecularNostalgicChristian FaithAlumniTrottingBecoming Involved Author:John Shelby Spong
“I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.” SuccessfulChildhoodGrewBecomingGrew UpVery HappySuburbsPhiladelphiaImpedimentsHappy Childhood Author:Anna Quindlen
“I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.” DreamChildhoodGrewBecomingGrew UpSingersColombiaChildhood Dreams Author:Shakira
“[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years, even in past relationships, that I'm still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I'm still growing and becoming.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsMindStillsSometimesStoriesPastStrongParentPowerfulKnownGrowingChildhoodBecomingElementsAspectEducationalVulnerabilitySpokesAestheticMind BlowingPast Relationship Author:Aisha Hinds
“There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to assimilate into whatever new surroundings I had and to become very comfortable with people quickly. I think that was one of the strongest contributing factors to my becoming an actor, because I constantly had to readjust, even reinvent. But at the same time, it also became very easy for me not to become attached to people, places, or things. I learned to enjoy people and places for the time I had, for the moment, to be in the moment, and move on.” PeopleThinkingMomentsMovingActorsEasyEnjoyChildhoodBecomingElementsComfortableFactorsStrongestAssetsSurroundingsContributing Author:Demi Moore
“In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate to what kids may be experiencing as they navigate through childhood and adolescence putting together building blocks of the foundations on which they will become adults.” WritingMayIdeasKidsTogetherArtistProcessSimpleJourneyChildhoodBuildingBecomingMessagesAdultsFoundationBlockRelateConcreteAdolescenceNavigateMy JourneyBuilding Blocks Author:Floyd Cooper
“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.” WayMindChildrenRealYoungUsedJoyFreedomOpinionSunImagineChildhoodWindFlowerBecomingOceanUnderstoodUsed To BeInnocenceBeing RealJoyfulYoung ChildrenBeing FreeReal YouBeing A Kid Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood.” ChildhoodBecomingLeavingReportsJustinMoodySecretiveHeadless Author:J. K. Rowling
“I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.” ThinkingWritingGirlDifficultGrowingSacrificeChildhoodBecomingExpectedWomanhoodHermione Author:J. K. Rowling