Quotes tagged ‘Childhood’

“If internalizers were shamed for their sensitive emotions during childhood, as adults they may be embarrassed to show any deep emotion. They may say “I’m sorry” when they start crying in a therapist’s office, as though they should be able to talk about their emotional pain without showing it. Some e…”

— Lindsay C. Gibson, amazon.com

“You guys don't understand the politics of childhood.”

— Mark Levin, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Nick Kroll, Nick Birch, Nick Kroll, imdb.com

“When they say 'boys' they not talking about us. They talking about other boys from other places. When did we ever get to be boys?”

— Ava DuVernay, Robin Swicord, Raymond Santana, Freddy Miyares, imdb.com

“They say the best part of life is the childhood, but I began backwards. My winter has just melted and the best is yet to come.”

— Ani Shahverdyan, instagram.com

“I had a fairly standard childhood. I came from what you might call a broken home, literally broken. I was eight days old and still living with my parents. How sad is that?! Clearly it was time to move on.”

— Alan J. Schoolcraft, Brent Simons, Megamind (voice), Will Ferrell, imdb.com

“You see, my father was very emotionally cut off from me. He worked long hours, got home at about 7:00 and left early in the morning. I don’t ever remember my father in my entire childhood saying, 'How are you feeling?' or 'How are you doing?' My father had no interest.”

— Howard Stern, rollingstone.com

“We never went to ballgames. The only sport my dad liked was yelling.”

— Michael Kalesniko, Len Blum, Howard Stern, Howard Stern, imdb.com

“Christopher Robert: I'm not a child anymore. I'm an adult with responsibilities. Winnie the Pooh: Well, that doesn't sound like fun!”

— Tom McCarthy, Alex Ross Perry, Allison Schroeder, Greg Brooker, Mark Steven Johnson, Christopher Robin, Ewan McGregor, imdb.com

“My teeth are crooked. I was supposed to get braces as a kid, but my parents didn't have enough money... left over from their trip.”

— Jonathan Katz, H. Jon Benjamin, Loren Bouchard, Karen LeBlanc, Annette LeBlanc Cate, Will Le Bow, Richard Luongo, Andre Lyman, Julianne Bond, Laura Silverman, Tom Snyder, Mark Usher, Bill (voice), Bill Braudis, imdb.com

“Since I was very young, my mom has told me I have “champagne tastes.” This meant that I preferred the non-clearance clothing racks at KMart.”

— Melanie LaForce, amazon.com

“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.”

— Katherine Johnson, brainyquote.com

“My parents used to scramble to find babysitters, so they could take my little brother to do stuff.”

— Charlie Grandy, Andy Bernard, Ed Helms, imdb.com

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”

— Richard Paul Evans, amazon.com

“Marty Manning: Well let's start with the basics... I did have a bad childhood. Special Agent Rebecca Locke: No, that's just not it. There's one side you like about yourself. But the other you don't, that's why every time you kill one of those people... you're like killing yourself.”

— Rob Pearlstein, Special Agent Rebecca Locke, Rachel Nichols, imdb.com

“Cole Sear: [of his grandmother] She wanted me to tell you... Lynn Sear: Cole, please stop... Cole Sear: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said, when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn't come see you dance. She did. She hid i…”

— M. Night Shyamalan, Cole Sear, Haley Joel Osment, imdb.com

“I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.”

— Karl Lagerfeld, newyorker.com

“Childhood doesn't last. Nothing lasts.”

— Howard Korder, Gillian Darmody, Gretchen Mol, imdb.com

“Childhood living is easy to do.”

— The Rolling Stones, open.spotify.com

“I was born, but I wasn't raised.”

— Sleeping With Sirens, open.spotify.com

“Hey hey It's just a house. It's not you, or your family, or your childhood. It's just a house. Some wood and some stone, and glass.”

— Marissa Jo Cerar, Callie Jacob, Maia Mitchell, imdb.com