Bertrand Russell Quotes

All of us are products of our childhood.

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

The child is father of the man.

Nations, like individuals, are largely the product of their environment; and many of their characteristics, their fears and their neuroses, as well as their abilities, are conditioned by the impressions of what we may call their early childhood.

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood.

Kids are important.

The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.

I used to get shadowed when I was 8 years old. Really early.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

When I was a kid, I was really quiet.

You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.

The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.