“A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.” ChildhoodWorstPreparationHappy Childhood Author:Kinky Friedman
“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
“On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.” ThinkingChildrenChildhoodWorstFameStardom Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.” KindHelpingBodySituationEconomicChildhoodWorstDesignHigherBenefitsProgramUniversalImpactMajorityFolksDefinitionsEmploymentAfrican AmericanMinimumWagesMinimum WageEarly ChildhoodEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school. We moved to the UK where I grew up in poverty, in some of the worst conditions in a developed economy, before moving to the projects - heaven - and I went to unremarkable schools before going to university. My father was a bus conductor first and then a waiter, and my mother a seamstress.” SchoolMovingMotherFatherHeavenParentPovertyEconomyChildhoodWorstHigh SchoolToughMovedBusConductorWaiter Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual.” MayReasonProcessMemoriesChildhoodWorstOffersIdealsResistanceArtisticRememberedMoldChildhood Memories Author:Gene Wolfe
“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'” NeedsChildrenMadeTodayNamesWaitingAnswersBloodChildhoodWorstCrimeTomorrowRight NowErrorsFaultsBonesSensesGuiltyNeglectFountain Author:Gabriela Mistral
“I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew. I knew this would happen. This is what always happens. Forget your faith in me. I took you with me because I was vain. Because I wanted to be adored. Look at you. Glorious Pond, the girl who waited for me. I’m not a hero. I really am just a mad man in a box. And it’s time we saw each other as we really are. Amy Williams, it’s time to stop waiting.” MenLooksHandsHappensWantedGirlWaitingForgetSawsChildhoodWorstHeroMadBoxesVainGloriousWorst ThingsPondsAmyMad Men Author:Steven Moffat
“To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?” ChildrenWonderChildhoodWorstTradeExplanationChildhood MemoriesPlausible Author:Robert Breault