“My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.” SchoolGirlChildhoodComfortableSecureNightmareOther GirlGiraffe Author:Brigitte Nielsen
“A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.” CharacterChildhoodComfortableLonelyGoldenUnderdog Author:Anthony Browne
“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.” KnowsEndsDreamDesireDifficultImagineChildhoodComfortableEternalDisappearLife And DeathYearningAdolescence Author:Hugh Hefner
“I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.” FeelsFeelingsTogetherDesireStrongGroupsChildhoodPositionComfortableLongingIncrediblesOutsidersStrong Feeling Author:Lily King
“I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"” PeopleFeelsWritingTryingReasonMomentsBodyPastSexChildhoodComfortableTraumaLawyerInstanceJournalismPlentyReason WhyNurseOur PastYour PastStrippingSex Work Author:Craig Seymour
“What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five kids. So I had the great advantage of being able to play up to the older kids and play down to the younger kids and I think that's part of what propelled me to become a teacher at some point in my life. But it was a comfortable childhood. It was a privileged childhood.” ThinkingKindPlayKidsAbleSchoolSocialFiveTeacherChildhoodMiddleComfortableAdvantageAgendasPrivilegedSocial Life Author:Bill Ayers
“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
“Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be angry about than anyone else. It's not like I was abused as a kid or anything. I had a pretty comfortable childhood with parents who took good care of me. But resentment exists, and some of it goes into the music. Some of it goes into physical activity.” EnoughCareKidsParentChildhoodActivityComfortableAngryResentmentPhysical Activity Author:Bruce Cockburn
“I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.” PeopleTwoFeltChildhoodComfortableTradeMy TimeAttributesGrandparentAccusedAffinityOlder PeopleGreat GrandparentsBeing Old Author:Jon Meacham
“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.” ThinkingYearsHumansLooksFeltRaceFiveFourChildhoodPlanetsMembersComfortableMy FamilyAliensHuman RaceFive YearsTallSkinnyDisconnectedFive Year Olds Author:Patti Smith
“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.” PeopleMayTwoSometimesReasonDoneHomeDreamPastHouseSoundTermChildhoodPrideHealthyComfortableLateBuiltOwnershipDesirableConvenientLightersEmbodimentIndomitableDream HouseChildhood Home Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.” BodyChildhoodComfortableSwimmer Author:Estella Warren