“I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for… — Crystal Woods Copy Share Image
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
“The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never had the opportunity in her first lost childhood; and in the intervening years her desire for it had doubled over and… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I can only love you the way I love you when we were still kids, I still love you the way I… — Erg1518 Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
My childhood was full of Salil Chowdhary, R.D. Burman and Madan Mohan sahab. My father used to play with them and I… — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
I grew up Valley Stream until my parents moved to Florida when I was 20. I graduated from Valley Stream Central High… — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“While Ginger didn't like the evil-recipe days, she certainly loved the treat-making days. She liked rolling dough and cutting it into perfect… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Ever since (childhood), I realized that one of the coolest things in the game is scoring touchdowns. And I think mentally that… — Shaun Alexander Copy Share Image
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.” — Peter O. Gray Copy Share Image
Dhanush has been a fan of my father since his childhood. They share mutual respect for each other. Also, the fact that… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
“Only a fool wants to go back to the land of childhood . . . Or perhaps it is the longing for the certainties of… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I grew up a single kid and so my whole childhood was spent in my backyard dealing with imaginary circumstances and role… — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
“As I started my personal voyage to unpack the childhood that I repressed for so long, everything unexpectedly made sense as to… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my… — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for… — Chi Chi Rodriguez Copy Share Image
