#childhood

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go. ↗

— Frank Leslie

#as far as #care #childhood #far #freedom

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#difficulties #early #early childhood #had #hard

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#childhood #further #his #man #mystery

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#anytime #childhood #exercise #get #help

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#childhood #comfortable #giraffe #i #lot

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#fantastic #how #i #many #ny times

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#draw #explore #gives #ideas #imagination

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#childhood #children #learning #often #play

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#am #before #childhood #dark #different

I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you always?" "What are you, a psychiatrist?" Pritam took a breath. He could feel Laine's eyes on him, appraising his line of questioning. "Is it possible that the trauma of losing your best friend as a child and the trauma of losing your wife as an adult and the trauma of seeing Laine's husband take his life in front of you just recently..." Pritam shrugged and raised his palms, "You see where I'm going?" Nicholas looked at Laine. She watched back. Her gray eyes missed nothing. "Sure," agreed Nicholas, standing. "And my sister's nuts, too, and we both like imagining that little white dogs are big nasty spiders because our daddy died and we never got enough cuddles." "Your father died?" asked Laine. "When?" "Who cares?" Pritam sighed. "You must see this from our point of - " "I'd love to!" snapped Nicholas. "I'd love to see it from your point of view, because mine is not that much fun! It's insane! It's insane that I see dead people, Pritam! It's insane that this," he flicked out the sardonyx necklace,"stopped me from kidnapping a little girl!" "That's what you believe," Pritam said carefully. "That's what I fucking believe!" Nicholas stabbed his finger through the air at the dead bird talisman lying slack on the coffee table. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#anger #childhood-trauma #death #defensive #grief