Childhood Memoir Quotes

#1. What memoir of childhood doesn't at some point turn on the scent of a sweet pea or a freshly cut lawn or a boxwood hedge, to leap the fence of years?

Michael Pollan

#2. If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

Victoria Pratt

#3. Within that quiet little girl with no apparent needs lived a person with a great imagination. In that shell I lived and grew and planned, until there emerged a way to pull all the loose threads of my life together.

A.R. Cecil

#4. We'll never let him do that to you again. Never.

David Lagercrantz

#5. Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Maggie Young

#6. People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House,

Tom Tancredo

#7. You must work hard to get what you want.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.

Greg McVicker

#9. Childhood is a wilderness.

Aspen Matis

#10. Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.

Childhood is a wilderness.

Aspen Matis

#11. My cousin. His name is Abel. He is two years older than I. Next to my father, he is dearest to my heart.

Celia Mcmahon

#12. The freedom of the woods lingered in me here; I felt lighter. I hoped to be changed by it, allow this seeding independence to root in my childhood Eden's soil and grow until at last it was undeniable.

Aspen Matis

#13. Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Frances Mayes

#14. I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

Adeline Yen Mah

#15. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

Adeline Yen Mah

#16. I am learning to reevaluate all concepts and notions long associated with love.

Ena

#17. I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones
I had a childhood.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#18. Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who seek knowledge and freedome will succeed even at there past.

Hamzat Haruna Ribah