Top 25 Deprived Childhood Quotes
#1. It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
Carol Vorderman
#2. I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.
Terry Pratchett
#3. The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#4. The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He could not tell one day from another, hardly one place from another. Nothing was distinct or distinguishable. Often he lost himself for an hour at a time, could not remember what he had done.
D.H. Lawrence
#5. In most cases you are the one who confuses just doing the job with testing your worth.
Replace 'I have to' with 'I choose to'.
Neil A. Fiore
#7. I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.
Mark Twain
#8. I love the coffee shops and reading rooms where one can sit and talk or browse forever. I
Gloria Steinem
#9. Sometimes, we pay a higher price for trying to help someone fit into their skin than we do trying to fit into ours.
Srividya Srinivasan
#10. A number of neurotic ancestors, combined with with persistent, unresolved terrors of childhood, had deprived me of the comfortable gift of natural courage.
Vera Brittain
#11. The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.
Madeleine L'Engle
#13. Looking at these people now from behind the counter, made her feel like that little girl again, the deprived child that used to press her nose on the glass, peering at things she could never have.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
#14. Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?
Jennifer Hudson
#16. Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#17. The objective of adding more hours is to achieve the targets and not vice versa.
Shikha Kaul
#18. Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.
Eva Hart
#20. The trick is that you have to believe the lie and believe it so much that the lie becomes the truth.
Antonio J. Mendez
#21. The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.
Robert Breault
#22. For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot.
Robbie Jones
#23. How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
Maria Montessori
#24. Trust life. Trust your Creator. He will not deliver you to anything but the best.
Pooja Ruprell
#25. People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
Bryce Harper
