“Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?.” PeopleWantWritingHas BeensFeelingsMightPastNextParentEmotionCareersFourChildhoodLetting GoWho You AreUpsetYour ChildrenTiesRelatedOur RelationshipI Want You Author:James W. Pennebaker
“The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.” LastsFourHeardChildhoodMonthsThanks Author:Paul Feig
“I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.” IfsMadeTogetherDifferencesWonderFourChildhoodFoodBrotherMomEatingCookingRestaurantsCulinaryRecognizingOlder BrotherEating AloneRestaurant BusinessEating Together Book:Bouchon Source: Bouchon
“For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.” ChildrenLittlesBookThreeParentNaturalFictionFourWeekChildhoodHorrorLibraryLocalsCinemaSci FiThrillersRubberFoamStoolsNatural HistoryDevouringOrigami Author:David Nicholls
“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.” MenWritingStillsCountryStoriesOrderCitiesMoralFourWrittenHeardChildhoodStyleSceneAspectIntentionDareConvictionMaturityOld ManCensorshipChaptersIndifferentAdolescenceCentrePublic LifeMeannessParalysisDublin Author:James Joyce
“The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.” YearsChildrenKnownFourChildhoodPoetFour YearsInnate Book:Chimneysmoke Source: Chimneysmoke
“Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.” IfsThinkingYearsDifferentFourChildhoodPerspectiveFour YearsDifferent Perspective Author:Mary Harron
“I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsChildrenBigsLastsThreeHouseLeftBornMy OwnFourChildhoodQuietDiedOur ChildrenNostalgiaEchoesHappy Family Author:Guy Maddin
“I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.” PeopleIfsHelpingWould BeMotherStepsFourChildhoodNeededDegreesThirdsSevenLoyaltySiblingVaryCloseness Author:Ann Patchett
“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.” MenLifeFourChildhoodStageAdolescenceInfancyObsolescenceInfancy Is Author:Art Linkletter
“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
“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.” ThinkingKnowsLifeWellsSeemsHappensRememberDeathCertainTimeDiesMemoriesNumbersWatchesKnowingFiveFourChildhoodInspirational LifeMoonLive LifeLife And DeathMore TimeAfternoonWasting TimeComposerLiving My LifeEnjoy LifeLimitlessLife Is ShortLife Is Too ShortChildhood MemoriesFull MoonSmall NumbersAppreciate LifeDon't Waste Your TimeTime FliesLive Life HappyConceivingLife Being ShortMoon Rise Author:Paul Bowles
“Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.” YearsLongSchoolChoicesNamesFiveFourChildhoodNeededLateTwentiesUniversityAffairForgottenThirtyFive YearsTeensLeavers Author:Ian Mcewan
“The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.” ChildrenPurposeParentEnjoyFamilyFiveFourChildhoodImportancePrime Author:Jim Trelease