Alexandra Fuller Quotes

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.

What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us.

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

The things that impress you when you're a child have an incredible influence on your life.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, that no one else can ever know.

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.