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“It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.”

Firsts Father Individual Childhood Holy Columns

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?”

Years Father Parent Sadness Childhood Loneliness Waste Rage Injury Survivor Reign Wrecks Parents Marriage

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.”

People Persons Mother Father Atheism Childhood Monsters Unhappy Nervous Worried Sarcastic Happy Person Unhappy Person Very Sarcastic Good Childhood

Author:Paula Danziger

“Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the mother protects. But there are many people, millions of them, who never grow beyond their childhoods. They remain stuck somewhere, and they still need a father and a mother. Hence God is called the Father or the Mother. They need a divine Father to protect them; they are not mature enough to be on their own. They need some security.”

People Men World Want Needs Stills Enough Mother Father Grows Millions Childhood Security Divine Strange Protect Safe Stuck Secure Mature Strange World

Author:Rajneesh

“My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.”

Made Father Half Childhood Century Half A Century

Author:Antonio Porchia

“Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood. Missing their mother. Missing their father. AIDS is devastating families around the globe. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.”

Knows Children Mother Fighting Father Millions Support Childhood Missing Aids Seconds Globes Hiv Did You Know Hiv Aids

Author:Danny Glover

“I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.”

May Father Parent Childhood Development Mirrors Glimpse

Book:We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse

Source: We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse

“That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father. She was like some silvery comet who streaked through life with daring speed, the wellspring of which was an inner confidence that I deeply admired. At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by her but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening.”