Childhood Illness Quotes

#1. I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

Tammy Baldwin

#2. My voice is loud and piercing, and I project like I was once told by a doctor during a childhood illness that I would never speak again.

Mindy Kaling

#3. Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip.

John Patrick Hickey

#4. I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going.

Chelsie Shakespeare

#5. It's amazing the things that the heart and mind can endure. No one ever told me that growing up, so I often spent my childhood thinking something was wrong with me.

Yassin Hall

#6. The primary driver to pathological dissociation is attachment disorganization in early life: when that is followed by severe and repeated trauma, then a major disorder of structural dissociation is created (Lyons-Ruth, Dutra, Schuder, & Bianchi, 2006).

Frank M. Corrigan

#7. The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.

James Hillman

#8. The first person I knew who died was Beth March. I cried for three days.

A. Louise Robertson

#9. Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Carlo Collodi

#10. Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

Petrarch

#11. The woman always wins. With courage, intelligence, and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on earth, the human male, to his knees.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#12. Living in the present is the way to go.

Renee Marino

#13. My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.

James Cagney

#14. Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

Nathan Filer

#15. There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists,

Annaleigh Ashford

#16. Maybe I shouldn't trust him after all, just like he doesn't seem to trust me fully. Shit, is it always so hard to get close to someone?

Stephanie Witter

#17. He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#18. Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end.

Carlo Callodi

#19. In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

Patsy Cline

#20. Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

Alice Miller

#21. ...Most attackers aren't going to be dissuaded by a witty remark."

"That's profiling," said Mattheus. "Maybe they're Oscar Wilde fans."

"He did have great clothes."

"Proving that stereotypes can span centuries.

Amy Fecteau

#22. Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55

Marlene Steinberg

#23. During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.

Wladyslaw Reymont