I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.
Michel Faber
Related I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well. ETHAN CANIN I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being... CAROLL SPINNEY I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my child... WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad ch... EMILIA FOX I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and l... JEFFREY EUGENIDES I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, b... BEVERLY CLEARY We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from v... ALISON GOPNIK I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully impr... PAULA FOX I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible... KINKY FRIEDMAN Primal Therapy simply means bringing their childhood back to them. They will relive it in imaginatio... OSHO I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated. HUGH HEFNER From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt v... PATTI SMITH My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps. AMANDA HARLECH Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense ... KATE DICAMILLO I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building. RENZO PIANO My earliest memory is shouting: at what and for what reason, I don't know. Probably a tantrum; or I ... LEMMY KILMISTER My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because... BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, o... PAWAN KALYAN -If I somehow possessed a set of videotapes that contained all the most significant events of your c... MARTHA STOUT My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderla... PARIS HILTON FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory fr... KURT VONNEGUT Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I rea... BAYARD TAYLOR I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good. WALE I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration c... GEORGE TAKEI I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and w... JOHN STEINBECK I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a f... EMMANUEL JAL I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to... ALAN HOVHANESS I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It sim... MONTY ROBERTS One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's ab... TIM DALY All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, an... DOROTHEA DIX I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of s... STING One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars ... CARLA HALL I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, ... CAT POWER I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting a... ANGELA MERKEL Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childho... DANIEL BREAKER My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was all... POPPY Z. BRITE My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had don... BEN ELLIOT My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou... PAULA DANZIGER My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in m... ISABEL ALLENDE I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were m... AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent... CASEY AFFLECK You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how ... JUDITH JAMISON On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the for... IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister,... MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't... NAMIE AMURO My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboard... RYAN SHECKLER There is something about being loved and protected by a parent (or guardian) knowing that I can be l... JONATHAN HARNISCH I've always been very comfortable wearing not much, in my swimwear or my underwear, or running a... MIRANDA KERR Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something ne... MARISKA HARGITAY To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: on... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH What's the difference?" You ask me The difference is, a smile touches my lips When I remem... TAMMY-LOUISE WILKINS A bad conscience has a very good memory SOURCE UNKNOWN My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy chi... BRUCE ROBINSON I remember nothing of my childhood. I remember absolutely nothing, it's kinda scary. TONY TORREZ My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn... JONI MITCHELL I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and t... JEREMY SISTO I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series... NORA EPHRON My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gif... GERALD DURRELL The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ... EUGENE IONESCO I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been... MICHAEL IAN BLACK Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. J.M. BARRIE I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside t... LUCY CHRISTOPHER So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don'... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when ... MICKEY ROURKE I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushi... SHAWN LEVY I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. M... CASSIE VENTURA I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I ... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my min... NIKOLA TESLA You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again... CRAIG THOMPSON They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal proc... JACK KILBY Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but... TONY DUNGY I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life. RIHANNA Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before o... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly fr... AGATHA CHRISTIE My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood. LAURA HARRIER I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afrai... PATRICK STEWART I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a... ERIC WILSON I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood. THALIA My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories. THOMAS KELLER I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town. CHELSEA CAIN There must be a little memory bank, a library or storage unit in my brain, that just tucks away memo... DEBRA LAWRANCE I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise ... DOLLY PARTON I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. ANDREW WILES Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don... ABEL KORZENIOWSKI I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nost... JAMILA WOODS I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very w... ORSON WELLES My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very... DAVID GROSS When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ... MAHESH BABU I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. VONDA SHEPARD I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or no... B. F. SKINNER I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on... VICKY MCCLURE My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug... SUSAN HAYWARD To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember JAMES R. HOFFA (JIMMY) I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is dif... NANCY FARMER I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort. GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytel... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
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MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves. MICHEL FOUCAULT Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting d... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal. MICHEL FOUCAULT The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavi... MICHEL FOUCAULT When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who w... MICHEL GONDRY It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was... MICHEL MARTELLY Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clerg... MICHEL ONFRAY We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is cl... MICHEL ONFRAY It's about time that Amtrak entered the 21st century. Revenue maximization works, and as Amtrak sees... ALLEN MICHEL Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much. ALLEN MICHEL I would try to settle all the outstanding liability claims at this point in time, so that it doesn't... ALLEN MICHEL They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them ... ALLEN MICHEL When you're putting off the benefits of a deal for that long, you're dramatically increasing the ris... ALLEN MICHEL They have to try to minimize each one of these risks until they finally enter the actual battle of r... ALLEN MICHEL Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too o... MICHEL ONFRAY I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitut... MICHEL ONFRAY The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full st... MICHEL FOUCAULT By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife enge... MICHEL ONFRAY Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of powe... MICHEL FOUCAULT We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unluck... MICHEL PATINI At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rar... HARTMUT MICHEL The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, inclu... MICHEL ONFRAY My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances ... MICHEL GONDRY