Tracy Morgan Quotes

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

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.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.

My childhood was so traumatic.

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

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 got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it.

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you inside for life.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.