Childhood Is Terrible Quotes

#1. The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

Gertrude Atherton

#2. I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup center in college.

Terry Porter

#3. Around two years of age, your child starts to develop a fascination with saying the word "no." Early childhood experts call this the threshold between the sensorimotor stage and the preoperational stage of cognitive development. The rest of us call it "the terrible twos.

Anonymous

#4. In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

N.K. Jemisin

#5. You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

Sanford Meisner

#6. One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

Jon Meacham

#7. The central aspect I wanted to explore was the path a person takes to get to the point where they can justify doing terrible things in the name of good. What motivations sway them? What stones laid in childhood become the foundation legacies are built on?

Kiersten White

#8. If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

Miyamoto Musashi

#9. Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the barbaric time when there were no police to protect you, only parents preoccupied with themselves and their taller world.

Ray Bradbury

#10. I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.

Allen Iverson

#11. Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

Jimmy Fallon

#12. My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.

Michelle Magorian

#13. It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

Charles Addams

#14. I remember my own childhood vividly ... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

Maurice Sendak

#15. Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

David Mitchell

#16. I have a terrible memory of my own past. I can barely remember my childhood. I have few memories from college and law school - though once I got married, I got the advantage of being able to consult my husband's memory.

Gretchen Rubin

#17. I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why super models aren't good actresses, because they don't need anything. If someone is beautiful and she's needy, she's probably had a terrible childhood.

Rob Schneider

#18. The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.

David Vann

#19. In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.

Harrison Scott Key

#20. It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

Lucien Bouchard

#21. Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.

Stefan Zweig

#22. I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

Melinda Gates

#23. That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu

Ruth Reichl

#24. I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.

Doris Lessing

#25. Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

Lord Chesterfield

#26. There was very little that Jaime took seriously. Tyrion knew that about his brother, and forgave it. During all the terrible long years of his childhood, only Jaime had ever shown him the smallest measure of affection or respect, and for that Tyrion was willing to forgive him most anything.

George R R Martin

#27. There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Cleveland Amory

#28. I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Joyce Meyer

#29. Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.

Theodor Adorno

#30. The moon is your reminder that God is never-changing, and you can always depend on Him to hear your prayers.

Tessa Emily Hall

#31. I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.

Sharon Salzberg

#32. The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

Richard Rhodes

#33. When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

John Ortberg

#34. My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

Harold Budd

#35. Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.

Elizabeth Bowen

#36. My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

Mark Billingham

#37. So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

John Gardner

#38. I know what you want. And I know what you need. But I'm gonna screw it up, yeah, cause I'm an idiot. And I'm your boyfriend.

Jimmy Fallon