“Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.” PeopleWayWritingReadingInterestGoneHappenedChildhoodNormalUniversalMemoirOutrageousThresholdWeirdness Author:Sara Nelson
“You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingLooksChildrenDifferentReasonTodaySchoolCoursesParentRealizingEnvironmentHappenedInfluenceChildhoodEmotionalObviousYour ChildrenIdenticalPsychiatristUpbringingNeurosisDifferent Experiences Author:Louis Auchincloss
“We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.” ChildrenStoriesComedyHappenedChildhoodOur ChildrenDown AndSatPoignant Author:Howie Mandel
“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.” PeoplePersonsCountryCertainIndividualTakenHappenedChildhoodReturnSiegeUnder Siege Book:Black Dreams Source: Black Dreams
“I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility. I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult.” KindChildrenCharacterHomeStuffResponsibilityCreativeHappenedChildhoodBehaviorAdultsStrategyBrilliantMy ChildrenDefectsPowerlessTaking ResponsibilityCopingShortcomingsBlamelessDefects Of Character Author:Ashley Judd
“We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!” ThinkingKidsHouseLeftParentHappenedCrazyChildhoodFiguresCollegeAdulthoodGreat FamilyGreat Parents Author:Andy Andrews
“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 don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood - kind of Lord of the Flies-y. So many weird things happened, funny things.” KindLordBoysHappenedChildhoodMissingHeavyThings HappenNeighborhoodFunny ThingsWeird ThingsWackyGood Neighbor Author:Justin Theroux
“I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.” ThinkingKindKidsAmericaTeachHappenedChildhoodFrontsTvsMirrorsPretendingAccents Author:India de Beaufort
“People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingYearsChildrenPersonsSometimesSeemsCertainHappenedChildhoodStrangeStrangerAliensAlienationDecipher Author:Gunter Grass
“The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.” KnowsSaidMotherFatherHappenedChildhoodPsychoanalysis Author:Jessica Lange