I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in… — Shawn Wayans Copy Share Image
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a… — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness… — L.R.Knost Copy Share Image
“While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flowered pastures and oak groves wilting in the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When I put on my first Man Utd training kit, it felt enormous in a way that was really special in kind… — Tobin Heath Copy Share Image
“The principal difference between childhood and the stages of life into which it invariably dissolves is that as children we occupy a… — Alastair Reid Copy Share Image
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away,… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
In my childhood, I used to usually visit Christmas fairs in our area and at school with my friends and I really… — Gautam Rode Copy Share Image
I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities… — Miru Kim Copy Share Image
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave… — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I definitely have a dark sense of humor, and in ways I think that comes from having a lot of childhood trauma… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have… — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
“I was scarcely aware of the angry hands scratching and pulling at me from all directions. Instead, I closed my eyes and… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA.… — Jami Gertz Copy Share Image
Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here… — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that,… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
