“Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.” PeopleWorldFirstsKindWarStoriesHandsRememberStarsParentSpaceInterestingChildhoodStudentsMountainMarriedEducationalDinnerGhostWheelsGradesMy SisterRidingCheeseWormsAttackingGood StoryLukeGhost StoriesBabysitterSeminaryRainstormsSchnauzers Author:Kelly Link
“But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.” WarSoulMightLife IsStepsKnowingChildhoodIntegrityBeatsEndlessRhythmOutsidersPulseInexorableBystandersKnowing NothingMasai Book:West with the Night Source: West with the Night
“Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl without a school, without the fun and excitement of school. A child without games, without friends, without the sun, without birds, without nature, without fruit, without chocolate or sweets, with just a little powdered milk. In short, a child without a childhood.” PeopleYearsChildrenLittlesWarSchoolGamesFunSunChildhoodSweetDespairBirdMiseryFruitHungerInnocentShootingExcitementBoredomChocolateMilkElevenOld SchoolWithout Friends Book:Le journal de Zlata Source: Le journal de Zlata
“I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?” YearsWarLaughingFiveChildhoodFive YearsBombs Author:Marjane Satrapi
“In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.” PeopleThinkingWorldStillsWarFeelingsHandsFightingFeltResultsWonderfulHappenedChildhoodGladErasPostsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ICheatedPost War Author:Ashleigh Brilliant
“I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.” WorldWarHardYoungFoundHouseParentBornChildhoodBirthCoupleMarriedBuiltMy FamilyMovedBlockParisWar Of The WorldsFlatsApartmentSuburbsSecond World WarMarried Couples Author:Richard Clayderman
“That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.” LooksKindMayWarSoulDoneShowsJobsUniverseStarsBehindsChildhoodEthicsAestheticDo It YourselfGet The Job Done Author:Adam Savage
“War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.” WarChildhoodYouthDefinedAdulthood Author:Ru Freeman
“I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.” PersonsWarGrowsNiceChildhoodAffected Author:Novak Djokovic
“I came into politics because of a real childhood concern about the Cold War. So to me the importance of the nuclear deterrent is actually really ingrained in me.” WarRealChildhoodColdConcernImportanceNuclearCold WarDeterrent Author:Andrea Leadsom
“I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.” WarMemoriesGenerationsChildhoodCurrentsAfghanistanFamineSpectreFond MemoriesLandminesCurrent Generation Author:Khaled Hosseini
“We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.” WarRealKidsFightingChildhoodNormalVersionsChainsCivil WarGangReal ThingsGreaseSocs Book:That Was Then, This Is Now Source: That Was Then, This Is Now
“This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.” GivingFirstsMeanWarDoneRunningMotherValuesGivenMemoriesChanceImagineFailingChildhoodHappeningsConsequenceObviousMilesLimitationDecentTribesMotheringGood MemoriesTug Of War Author:Kelly Corrigan
“War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness” LooksWarLightRunningBehindsDarknessChildhoodColorShadowTeethCyclesLight And DarknessLemons Author:Suheir Hammad