Childhood Monsters Quotes

#1. Terror was out there. And it chased us.

Ruta Sepetys

#2. To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

Sam Brownback

#3. Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other ... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists ... So, I chose to believe in magic.

Thomm Quackenbush

#4. The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future.

Crystal Woods

#5. Crying makes me know I'm still real and still alive.

Gigi Amateau

#6. Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.

Alexandre Dumas

#7. That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

Dave Matthes

#8. Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Stephen King

#9. It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

Wilder Penfield

#10. The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous

John Le Carre

#11. Are there many little boys who think they are a
Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the
Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him
Joyfully

Anne Carson

#12. As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Max Cannon

#14. I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

Huey Lewis

#15. Social media is the illusion of connectedness without the interconnectedness that makes us thrive.

Lisa Cypers Kamen

#16. Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

Jimmy Buffett

#17. This was made for you, I think. For the person you're going to become.
A weapon to fight Death, in its form as the shadow of despair that falls on human minds and drains away their hope for the future.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#18. His glance was like a plea, like the cry for help of a man who could never cry.

Ayn Rand

#19. You forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood ...

John Geddes

#20. It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

#21. If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.

Ellen Willis

#22. I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.

Clive Barker

#23. You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now. Fly like the eagle; the eagle flies as if it never remembered it was once an egg!

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

Carl Sagan

#25. My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

Paula Danziger

#26. I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.

Leigh Bardugo