You want to know the best part about childhood? At some point, it stops.
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Quotes tagged ‘Childhood’
When I was young, I couldn’t sleep at night because I thought there was a monster in the closet. But my brother told me there wasn’t anything in the closet but fear. And fear wasn’t real. He said it wasn’t made of anything just…air. Not even that. He said you just have to face it. You just have to o…
— Michael Pavone, Michael Scofield, Wentworth Miller, imdb.com
A father’s first responsibility to their kids is to provide a beautiful lie for them to live in.
A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.
— Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Amos Burton, Wes Chatham, imdb.com
When parents fight, the child has a crisis of loyalty.
— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Chrisjen Avasarala, Shohreh Aghdashloo, imdb.com
Why are you so hard on yourself? I'm sure you got made fun of a lot when you were a kid, and that leaves a mark. I know. But you gotta shake it off, rub some dirt on it. You're never gonna be happy if you constantly live in fear.
— Lloyd Gilyard, Jr., William L. Rotko, Thomas L. Moran, Lea, Paige Spara, imdb.com
That night my father stood there, looking up at the sky the way he always did. But suddenly I realized I wasn't afraid of him in quite the same way anymore. The funny thing is, I felt like I lost something.
No more kid stuff. I wish you could have the childhood I had, but that's not gonna happen. People are gonna die. I'm gonna die. Mom... There's no way you can ever be ready for it. I try to be, but I can't. Best we can do now is avoid it as long we can, keep one step ahead. I wish I had something bet…
— Glen Mazzara, Evan Reilly, Rick Grimes, Andrew Lincoln, imdb.com
Mom, he's like eight years old. I'm not a little kid anymore. My childhood died on July 18, 2003. The day Kobe Bean Bryant was charged with sexual assault.
— Nahnatchka Khan, Steve Smith (voice), Scott Grimes, imdb.com
What happened in your childhood to make you believe people are good?
Eventually I crossed that invisible line of no return. After years of mental torment, behavioral problems, deep inner struggles and my own rebellious ways, I became the criminal that, at the time, it seemed as if it was my destiny to become.
My parents could not reach me, not even with all of their love. Many times I saw them break down and cry because they saw that I was such a tormented person.
Ever since I was a small child, my life seemed to be filled with torment. I would often have seizures in which I would roll on the floor. Sometimes furniture would get knocked over. When these attacks came, it felt as if something was entering me.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.
My name is Jervas Dudley, and from earliest childhood I have been a dreamer and a visionary.
He was driven to fight for foreign gods whom he did not know, far from his own country. And thus he met his fate. Now he lies there, dying in silence. The noise of the fray no longer reaches his ear. His dimmed eyes are turned inward, perhaps on a final vision of his childhood home where life was si…
Whether they’re humping them, cuddling them for security or simply touching them to be reassured of their place in this world, it’s clear that there are still a lot of men who are not quite ready to give up their teddy.
When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness...
Early in my childhood, when I was about six or seven, I began to get the feeling that there was something different about me. Maybe it was the way people talked about me as if I weren't in the room.