Happy Childhoods Quotes & Sayings

Fortunately, being mindful of family time - making a commitment to be there physically and mentally and enjoy life while doing so - makes memories possible. We control a lot less about our children's outcomes in life than we think. They are their own people. But one thing parents do shape is whether kids remember their childhoods as happy. Creating a happy home is a conscious choice, as is creating a happy marriage. — Laura Vanderkam

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now. — Eckhart Tolle

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. — Isabel Allende

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland ... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given. — Sue Grafton

Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire. — Carolyn Hart

[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion. — Dorothea Dix

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness. — Wayde Goodall

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. — Mike Huckabee

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We've learned to cope in ways you never had to. — Piers Anthony

No one knew.
Then Lily's mum knew, of course.
Then Lily knew.
And then everyone knew. Everyone. Which changed the whole world in a single day.
And he was never going to forgive her for that. — Patrick Ness

Damn. I'm getting fucked while practically standing on my head, and it's pretty superb.
I should be willing to walk away from my life just so I can have this done to me every day. It's definitely something to consider. — Georgia Cates

We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion. — Bryant McGill

Our neighbours had happy childhoods to a man and still feel angry. Perhaps they resent never having had a chance to become perverse ... — J.G. Ballard

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one. — William Matthews

A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals. — Adoniram Judson

I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen — Marisa De Los Santos

I am a big proponent of adopting dogs through shelters and rescue operations. Having dogs in the office might not be right for everyone, but it has certainly worked well for me. My advice to other offices, on the Hill and off, would be to try it out. — Linda Sanchez

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. — Antony Beevor

They say the luckiest people are the ones with happy childhoods. — Nina Wirk

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. — Ron Chernow

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. — Michael Herr

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage. — Hugh Jackman