Quotes about Childhood

When I was growing up, my parents put money into food, utility bills, and the mortgage.

I went to an Orthodox Jewish children's home that became an orphanage.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

Songs of Innocence

Parents are strange and wonderful creatures. When you're small they seem bright, shiny, and invincible. As you grow, that image starts to fade. It's a sobering moment, but the time will come when you realize they are not the heroes you imagined. They are just people struggling to do the best they can, just the same as you are.You will feel let down, betrayed, even ashamed. This is the time,...when you need to forgive your parents for being human.

For news of a mother's heart, watch her child's face.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

Most people's problems start as children when their parents, especially mothers, cause them to become angry.

What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.