Top 1200 Childhood Trauma Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.

People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term.

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.

I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.

It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.

Any character that has a reference or baggage or emotional trauma, I personally feel, leaves an impact.

This is kind of a dual existence where you are harsh but at the same time emotional. You are there because you have experienced trauma.

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.

It's very important to understand how the trauma of a life drives the music to really mean something.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.

I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

My childhood bedroom - if childhood could be about ten years old - had a bed which was under windows which faced north. At about age 10, I started watching the stars just move through the night.

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences.

I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.

My hometown has been devastated by a lack of access to trauma prevention and mental health services.

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.

My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.

All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.

Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.