“Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only… — Brian Mynott Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Keep on living 'till we die. No other way; it will come. And there's nothing we can do about it. But (...)… — Avi Copy Share Image
“I can’t go back to what we had in childhood. I can’t relive those times, retrace my tracks and undo what’s been… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My childhood best friend moved to Kenya when we were still young, and since I missed her so much, I always hoped… — Leila Lopes Copy Share Image
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, because people don't have leaves. Lola writes,… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
This is the most pure love of childhood, which are rich in selfless emotion, love of youth are Most selfish in the… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I was first sexually exploited when I was seven, by a distant cousin at a family wedding. Even after that I was… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
I wouldn't trade the childhood we had because, A, It was normal to me, even though, in hindsight, it's not normal. It… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
“And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“It's funny reading about how I behaved in the days before memories formed. So thanks for that input, Mom and Dad -… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
I have been a total brat since my childhood. Because of me, my mother's day was over by afternoon as just managing… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
I spent much of my childhood on stations up north, loving that life and with many, many special memories, and so the… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We… — Lee Thompson Young Copy Share Image
Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I… — Georgia Holt Copy Share Image
My dad got me an iMac, and I spent my whole childhood with my eyes glued to it. I was technically savvy… — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Since childhood, my mother made sure I oiled my hair and conditioned them properly every week. I still follow that regimen. Plus,… — Disha Patani Copy Share Image
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I grew up looking at the Grammys. It was a childhood infatuation with these people walking around with gold statues. I felt… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with… — Bernard Hill Copy Share Image
“Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
