Hard Childhoods Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty ... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard! — Aldous Huxley

No one is ever compelled to / so helpless that they get exploited. One who say so (that they were exploited) are lying.
One always has a choice to walk away! — Honeya

Croatia has been glorious - it's so beautiful, and I want to go back as often as I can. — Emilia Clarke

What I want, isn't what I need... — Shayla Black

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed. — Charles Addams

I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed. — Marcus Samuelsson

Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major. — Philip Pullman

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction. — Ayelet Waldman