We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.

Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

In the cruel clearness of her memory the boy remained unchanged, quick with the delight of laughter, and the pain with which she recalled that short destroyed childhood was still unendurable to her.

A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

Its use was taught in the Calmecac to the temalpouhqueh, who were students dedicated to take the accounts of skies, from childhood.

The family was impoverished, and only Alfred and his three brothers survived past childhood.

Another major childhood influence was Heigo Kurosawa, Akira's older brother by four years.

Abner spent his childhood in Auburn and later was sent to Cooperstown to live with his uncle and attend a private preparatory high school.

His father's civil service commission was still active, and during Turing's childhood years his parents travelled between Hastings in England and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired Army couple.

As a youngster living in poverty, along with his childhood friends, Johnson was an object of ridicule from members of higher social circles ; as such, he was commonly referred to as " poor white trash " by the elite in Raleigh.

The story that he himself in his childhood was sent to Ireland to be healed by Saint Modwenna, though mythical, may show Alfred's interest in that island.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner was born in Paris to an Austrian Jewish father and a half-Turkish half-Greek mother, and spent his childhood in France, Switzerland, and North Africa.

Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah ( Andrews ) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Nin was raised a Roman Catholic and spent her childhood and early life in Europe.

This childhood tragedy likely helped shape Capp ’ s cynical worldview, which, funny as it was, was certainly darker and more sardonic than that of the average newspaper cartoonist.

One event that affected ` Abdu ' l-Bahá greatly during his childhood was the imprisonment of his father when ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was eight years old ; the imprisonment led to his family being reduced to poverty and being attacked in the streets by other children.

A range of developmental disorders that initially occur in childhood may be diagnosed, for example autism spectrum disorders, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ), which may continue into adulthood.

He initially wants to join the Imperial Academy to become an Imperial pilot with his childhood friend Biggs Darklighter, but is held back by his uncle who ostensibly needs his help on the moisture farm ( while in reality, he hoped to prevent Luke from following his father's path to corruption ).

In due course, however, this personal rule reverted to rule through a royal favourite, initially Luis de Haro, a nephew of Olivares and a childhood playmate of Philip's, and the counter-reform of the committee system halted.

Jones ' interest in religion began during his childhood, primarily because he found making friends difficult, though initially he vacillated on his church of choice.

His earnings placed them roughly in the bracket of lower middle class according to McKinstry: although not as poor as he had been during his childhood, the family were not initially financially comfortable.

Alfred reveals to Bruce that during the Civil War, the Waynes used the vast cavern system as part of the Underground Railroad: after initially abseiling down a well ( which Bruce fell down in his childhood ) to get into the cave, they discover a hidden Civil War-era mechanical elevator which is still functional and leads to a hidden entrance in the mansion, which they then use as the primary means of entrance to the cave.

After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master ’ s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

She stumbles into Arthur, who initially calls himself " Wart " ( his childhood nickname ) and then, hearing of her reluctance to marry, tells her of the joys of life in Camelot (" Camelot ").

D. G. Myers, Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University, reviewing a biography of Kosiński noted that initially the author had passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own life during the Holocaust: " Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry.

The heads of the order deny his request to leave, but Knecht departs Castalia anyway, initially taking a job as a tutor to his childhood friend Designori's energetic and strong-willed son, Tito.

Due to the gender bias of the time, the young Buchi Emecheta was initially kept at home while her younger brother was sent to school ; but after persuading her parents to consider the benefits of her education, she spent her early childhood at an all-girl's missionary school.

Dick Emery had a very difficult childhood initially, however, following the departure of his father, Laurie Howe, when he was aged 8, things settled down.

He is initially accompanied by his childhood friend, Mina Hakuba, the daughter of the priest of the Hakuba shrine.

Abbott, who had been through a troubled childhood himself, had initially wanted to set the series in a children's care home rather than a hospital, but this was vetoed by Granada executives.

The process of forming a viable sense of identity for the culture is conceptualised as an adolescent task, and those who do not manage a resynthesis of childhood identifications are seen as being in a state of ‘ identity diffusion ’ whereas those who retain their initially given identities unquestioned have ‘ foreclosed ’ identities ( Weinreich & Saunderson 2003 p7-8 ).

Adam Beach and his two brothers initially went to live with their grandmother, who had spent her own childhood in one of the assimilationist Indian residential schools.

Charley had spent her childhood in foster homes and was initially somewhat cold towards her newfound sisters, but eventually came to accept them into her life.

Gilbey, who initially denied The Sun < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > charges, was a 33-year-old Lotus car-dealer who had been a friend of Diana's since childhood.

* Bruce-Aimeric's childhood friend from Nansen, who greets and initially hosts them upon their arrival on the harsh planet.

Later, he crashes into his father-in-law, drags his unconscious body inside, causes his mother-in-law to faint, makes his wife suspicious about his naked escapade the previous night when Nicola apologises and returns his clothes, and finally destroys his wife's childhood dollhouse, which was to be a gift to their newborn daughter, while attempting to fix the damaged fuse that led to him urinating on the goose initially.

Cortical thickness may be a better measure than gray matter volume although this may vary with age with an initially negative correlation in early childhood becoming positive later.

Although her mother initially wanted her to have a normal childhood, Roberts made her acting debut at age nine in Ted Demme's 2001 drama Blow.

Emrys initially refuses, intent on discovering who he is and regaining the lost memories of his childhood, but when the two are attacked by goblins and Ria tricks them into kidnapping her instead of him because he won't use his powers to save them both, he vows to save her.

Although the group initially referred to the first intimate group of a person's childhood, the classification was later extended to include other intimate relations.