Tough Childhood Quotes

#1. Overloading the HPA axis, especially in infancy and childhood, produces all kinds of serious and long-lasting negative effects - physical, psychological, and neurological.

Paul Tough

#2. I think the bottom line is that if you get through a childhood like mine, it's not at all bad. Obviously, you come out a pretty tough turkey, and you have had all the inoculations you need to keep you on a level keel for the rest of your life. The sad part is, most of us don't come out.

James A. Michener

#3. I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

Larry David

#4. There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that ... Childhood is tough.

Ellen Greene

#5. In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden.

Jane Byrne

#6. I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.

Giada De Laurentiis

#7. I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

Maurice Sendak

#8. Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.

Anna Quindlen

#9. Well, this is a tragic love story, isn't it? Alien invader falls for human girl. The hunter for his prey.

Rick Yancey

#10. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

Sarah Palin

#11. I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

Barbra Streisand

#12. Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

Greg Bear

#13. If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

Paul Tough

#14. My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

Tom Cruise

#15. Nakamura considered this. "I hesitate to agree, but that was probably a good idea."

"A compliment! My goodness, let me mark the day on my calendar!"

"That's why I hesitated to agree," Nakamura said with a note of weariness.

Kevin Sylvester

#16. Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#17. Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Donna Brazile

#18. the most fruitful time to transform pessimistic children into optimistic ones was "before puberty, but late enough in childhood so that they are metacognitive

Paul Tough

#19. How do our experiences in childhood make us the adults we become? It is one of the great human questions, the theme of countless novels, biographies, and memoirs;

Paul Tough

#20. When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#21. The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Larry Wall