Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I've learnt the power of words. I've had the worst thrown at me.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

We ought to regard the breaking of a child's spirit as a sin against humanity.

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty.

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.

As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.