#childhood

It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe. ↗

— V.C. Andrews

#funny

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#book #child #childhood #feel #hear

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#childhood #fact #films #friends #i

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#continually #images #parcel #part #personality

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#childhood #days #favorite #fully #lived

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#bit #childhood #fact #first #five

Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ↗

— Ken Hill

#kept #never #promise

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#childhood #during #i #periods #talk

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#been #childhood #ever #genetic #had

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience