Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, ... I was 10 years old when he passed, so my… — Lalah Hathaway Copy Share Image
I was just angry cause of my childhood. You know what I mean? So I carried, so I took that anger with… — Eddie Kingston Copy Share Image
I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many dreams as images from waking life.… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
“But the truth is, there's little even the most organized people can do to prepare themselves for having children. They can buy… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“She had other favourite lines. Our gas oven blew up. The repairman came out and said he didn't like the look of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Since early childhood, I've been trying to learn all I can. Science is everything; it's not just physics. It's the way of… — Gza Copy Share Image
I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor… — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth.… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I'm making the assumption that after Mrs. Obama leaves the White House that she will continue all of her work toward improving… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is to be honest, and I have always been honest as to how I have grown… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
We get to do what we love, and that's the most important thing. I feel very thankful, every day that I get… — Howard Berger Copy Share Image
I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up,… — Gegard Mousasi Copy Share Image
The host of 'Face The Nation,' Bob Schieffer, was an important figure in my childhood years. Every Sunday in the fall, he… — Chris Borland Copy Share Image
Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I… — David Rockwell Copy Share Image
For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably… — The Edge Copy Share Image
My childhood friends and I would have been featured in 'The Achievers: The Story of the Big Lebowski Fans,' but I never… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been… — Spencer Gordon Copy Share Image
Once I went back to my old city and saw my best friend from childhood walking around with a gang, looking cool.… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I was in a daze in my childhood mostly - always looking out of the window, waiting for some life to happen… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
