“I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.” IfsAmericaCultureFeltChildhoodOur ChildrenEndlessYour ChildrenComplaintsWailing Author:Edmund White
“I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.” DoeFeltParentChildhoodMotivatedVery HappyHappy ChildhoodLoving Parents Author:Terry Leahy
“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.” LightEarthBeliefHeavenFeltCausesLossSunGenerationsTroubleAtheismChildhoodLonelinessComfortSpringEmptyOur ChildrenShiningPainfulPositive AtheismCompanionCradleSolaceDoubtedLight UpThis GenerationSun ShinesSoulless Book:The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
“I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.” RomanceFeltPleasurePiecesChildhoodGeniusDespairDegreesJudgmentPerformancesRegardReceivingExaltedTrifling Author:Edmund Burke
“My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.” WayFeelsPersonsDifferentAgeFeltChildhoodVividWrinkles Author:Sarah Orne Jewett
“Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.” KnowsFatherFeltChildhoodAcceptedReflectingReflecting Back Author:Nadya Suleman
“Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.” IfsChildrenCharacterFeltSupportDoubtStreetsChildhoodCoupleSpringTownsOur FamilyNo DoubtFlawsJerseyPaymentNew JerseyLove Of MoneyCharacter FlawsI Love Money Author:Michael Ian Black
“What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.” KnowsNeedsFactsUseFeelingsLife IsLiteratureFeltMy OwnEmotionChildhoodMy Own LifeChildren's Literature Author:Judy Delton
“Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all her child's wishes and needs. It is not the suffering caused by frustration, however, that leads to emotional illness, but rather the fact that the child is forbidden by the parents to experience and articulate this suffering, the pain felt at being wounded.” NeedsChildrenFactsPainMotherSufferingWishFeltParentImagineChildhoodEmotionalFilledIllnessFrustrationWoundedForbiddenBest Mother Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.” MindChildrenRememberMotherFatherFeltChildhoodDisciplineMy ChildrenFamily LoveOldest Child Author:Billy Graham
“Although telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't. I had to put on so much makeup and wear a push-up bra and have huge hair with blond highlights. I was falling into a mentality where "more" was more beautiful.” WorldHas BeensBeautifulFallFeltChildhoodHugeHairMakeupMentalityHighlightsBrasPush Ups Author:Genesis Rodriguez