“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.” IfsChildrenHardHelpingKidsHouseChildhoodEmotionalLuckyOur ChildrenLegacyRememberedYour ChildrenDistinctionLucky You Author:Ayelet Waldman
“We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the Depression years, when things were tough, but my dad always had a job. But I had a great time. I was kind of restless, and I had a hard time staying in school all day, so me and a few pals would duck out and go out on these various adventures.” YearsKindHardSchoolJobsWonderfulChildhoodAdventureDadToughMy DadVariousHard TimesStayingDucksRestlessGreat TimesBoyhoodPalsHad A Great TimeWonderful TimesStay In School Author:James Arness
“I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why super models aren't good actresses, because they don't need anything. If someone is beautiful and she's needy, she's probably had a terrible childhood.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsNeedsHardBeautifulChildhoodTerribleModelsActressesRejectionNeedyBeautiful People Author:Rob Schneider
“By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.” TryingHardKidsGrowsGrowing UpChildhoodHarderHappy ChildhoodTrying So Hard Author:Lori Gottlieb
“The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.” HardWholeResultsBreakChildhoodHabitTrainingNarcissismEchoesSyndromesEarly Childhood Author:Merrill Markoe
“With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.” WorldMadeHardChildhoodSalvationDysfunctional Family Author:Mary Oliver
“It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.” WantMadeHardRunningFilmDiesActorsFantasyChildhoodThievesObscureMidnightBicycle Author:Ben Affleck
“My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.” PeopleHardWholeParentChildhoodHard WorkQuietElderly Author:Mindy Kaling