Samantha Morton Quotes

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

I have no complaints about my childhood.

I have no complaints about my childhood whatsoever.

You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

In a lot of ways, I had a wonderful childhood.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?

When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: "That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?"

Things could be worse and things could be so much better.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.