Tyler Perry Quotes

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

Sorry I don't eat buffalo.

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.

I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.