Childhood Home Quotes

• My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Home, Wheat Fields, Childhood

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• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  Sam Ewing

  Home, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• … It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

  Thomas Harris

  Healing, Home, Broken

  Thomas Harris (2007). “Hannibal Rising”, Dell

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• Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Home, Pride

  "La Poétique de l'Espace (The Poetics of Space)". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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• My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

  Topher Grace

  Home, Childhood, Feels

  "Topher Grace Talks New Website Cereal Prize And ‘That ‘70s Show’ For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2014.

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• I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Home, Childhood, Desire

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

  Colleen McCullough

  Art, Women, Reading

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• One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.

  Marie Calloway

  Home, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it.

  Guy Maddin

  Father, Home, Childhood

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds.

  Diablo Cody

  Dream, Home, Writing

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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