Childhood Difficulties Quotes

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

It's tough having the last name 'Rickles.' Luckily, my kids handled it great.

Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby.

We weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.

My aim is helping kids. Kids are the future. I love children. I'm thinking of my own childhood. I know where I'm from. If I wanted something, I couldn't get it. Life wasn't easy.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're not looking to upset anybody, and you're looking to discuss a subject that you yourself went through when you were nine - you just don't remember the difficulties of one's own childhood.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

I always thought I had a difficult childhood 'til I saw the film 'Angela's Ashes'.

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.

The problems children bring get bigger as they get older.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

Before I got to the NBA, I always flew coach - it was the worst time of my life. I remember being 14 or 15, and it was such a struggle to fit into those seats.