Jodie Sweetin Quotes

One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

I never was a child.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.

My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad.

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

You love your child, and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet, by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

I love my son. He's a great soul. He's a sweet person, but events that have happened to him in his life, some of his own making - as a parent, you really can't take full responsibility for the destruction that can happen to a child.

I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.

The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself.

I have a certain memory of the way in which my father loved me until I was 10, and it was unconditional and eternal. I get to carry that for the rest of my life, but on a practical level after age 10, it's just me sort of figuring it out.