“Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.” KnowsHeartChildhoodMy HeartStuckNeedles Author:Maurice Sendak
“Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.” WantImportantReasonHomeCareHousePayHalfWifeChildhoodHusbandEqualUniversalEightStuckBlockReason WhyWorkplaceSeventiesAffordableEarly ChildhoodEqual PayEarly Childhood EducationDay Care Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.” WayCertainGrowsGrowing UpChildhoodWorstStuckLimitationWorking It Author:Corey Taylor
“Well my favorite thing about being a mom is getting to relive your childhood all over again, that's one of my favorite things. And my favorite thing about being a wife? I have more freedom to just be crazy, because he's already stuck with me.” WellsWifeCrazyChildhoodMomMy FavoriteStuckYour ChildrenBeing A MomFavorites ThingsBeing Crazy Author:Nicole Richie
“The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.” PeopleThinkingKindChildrenIdeasDreamEasyQualityCrazyChildhoodCapableAdultsAreasVictimStuckAbsurdStayingNew IdeasSeriousnessChildhood Dreams Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“I don't know if I came to this life with it or if it's something that came to me in my childhood, but I do feel that some of the things my parents said to me and how they raised me really stuck with me.” IfsKnowsFeelsSaidParentChildhoodRaisedStuckThis Life Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.” ChildhoodStuckTopicsVeteranObesityChildhood Obesity Author:Jodi Kantor
“My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.” IfsRealTurnsFatherNamesSoundNumbersChildhoodSonCallingPressureStuckStaringMy SonSeventiesSyllablesToddlerDuncanJoey Author:David Bowie
“I've always been someone in [childhood] period of my life sort of the pains and anxieties of being young are the things that have really stuck with me.” PainYoungChildhoodPeriodsAnxietyStuck Author:Lena Dunham
“I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.” ThinkingForgetHellChildhoodDangerousStuckGloriousAdulthoodAdolescenceDystopia Author:Benjamin E. Sasse
“(Talks about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)"She was actually a recording star in Puerto Rico when my mom was growing up. My mom was always stuck sitting backstage somewhere or sitting in a front row, watching a performance her entire childhood. She thought that when her mom stopped performing she was relieved of those duties, but all I wanted to do was sing, ever since I was born, so she's always been backstage.” WantedStarsBornGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodFrontsDutyMomSittingPerformancesMy MomStuckPerformingGrandmotherRelievedPuerto RicoRico Author:Taylor Swift
“Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.” IfsThinkingI CanMotivationalStrongChangeLove IsChildhoodStrengthFaultsDeeperStuckVery StrongEraseCan't ChangeErasersImprinting Author:Louise Hay
“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.” PeopleMenWorldWantNeedsStillsEnoughMotherFatherGrowsMillionsChildhoodSecurityDivineStrangeProtectSafeStuckSecureMatureStrange World Author:Rajneesh