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“I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.”

Made Enough Class Feet Childhood Made It Clown

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. This is typical of many writers, I think. What is a drawback in childhood is an asset to a literary life. Not being fluent on one’s feet sends one to the page and a habit is born.”

Thinking Writing Born Feet Childhood Habit Pages Assets Usual Typical Shyness Drawbacks Fluent

Author:Lorrie Moore

“Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.”

People Kids Moving Three Pay Attention Feet Childhood Picks Terror Broke Awake Flats Tall Snaps Unemployed Illiterate

Author:Mary Karr

“The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.”

Men Feels Moments Earth Seeing Feet Childhood Events Type Impressive Earthquakes Insignificance Solidity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.”

“Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.”

World Children Fighting Grows Feet Land Childhood Balance Picks Adults Shakes Steady Adolescence Retreat Ripple Feet On The Ground

Author:Stella Chess

“My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am.”

Feels Faces Mother Sun Feet Childhood Fishes Streams Clothings Aunt

Author:William H. Gass

“But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Book Guy Deals Brain Feet Childhood Abuse Raised Teeth Plus Survivor Cult Look At Me Alcoholics Tubes Cologne Stinky

Book:Magical Thinking

Source: Magical Thinking

“Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember