Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers,… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't… — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But… — Theodore von Karman Copy Share Image
“Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question… — The Mirror of Maybe Copy Share Image
Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“I've tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father's house, all those things I didn't realize… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type,… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I spent my whole childhood trying to find places to be on my own. I used to sit on the water tank… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those… — Curtis Stone Copy Share Image
The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a child, of being wholly subservient and dependent, of being… — John Holt Copy Share Image
I'd get people asking me about my terrible, poor childhood which, in fact, was very normal, and I'd think, would you be… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever before Stoney came back to the surface. Most of… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was? — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard,… — Kenneth Bonert Copy Share Image
Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point,… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
My childhood was such an odd one, but with such magic, and the quirky grown-ups who were in it managed to still… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
An orphaned childhood asks, Am I the outcome of someones sin or the result of transgression committed by my mother in her… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Hindi music is something that I always loved since my childhood, my father Mr. Satyamurty was a legendary movie writer in the… — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
