Quotes About Stolen Childhood

#1. He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."
- Frank Balenger

David Morrell

#2. Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

Malcolm X

#3. Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble.

Max Lucado

#4. I am forever astonished at the longevity of childhood. How it never ends. How we are what we were. How turtles and engines and stolen kisses leave their jet trail across our gaping lives.

Tim O'Brien

#5. It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.

Carmelo Anthony

#6. A child's innocence is the one gift, that once stolen, can never be replaced.

Jaeda DeWalt

#7. As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

Jill Abramson

#8. In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us
not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

John Irving

#9. For the ones whose childhood was stolen. No matter your age, it's never too late to steal it back. Believe in the unbelievable, because this world we live in is magic.

L. H. Cosway

#10. All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

Roger Ebert

#11. The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and had now come back for her child.

Anne Lamott

#12. I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

Angela Merkel

#13. Every day I practice yoga, read poetry, and translate. What do I need politics for?

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#14. The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser