Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like. — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with.… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when… — Mike Ness Copy Share Image
“Some people as they grow up become less. As children they have glorious ideas of who they are and of what life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So ended the formative period in [his] life, the single year that set in motion all the clockwork of his future identity.… — Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason Copy Share Image
Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“and I’d scream and run away, flailing my arms but not actually scared, because back then all emotions felt like play, like… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
The Spice Girls and Fran Drescher were such important parts of my childhood. There was something about them that allowed me to… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been acting forever, and wardrobe changes the way… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts,… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really… — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Most of my good friends are my friends from high school or childhood, and they're not actors - they have 9-to-5 jobs.… — Emily Meade Copy Share Image
I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
“The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“For every day under the sun, he slowly began to live life like he felt the branches in his heart with its… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time.… — Devin Ratray Copy Share Image
“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So,… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That… — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it,… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“Today in an auditorium full of parents my son scanned the room looking for me. When he saw me his face lit… — Rachel Marie Martin Copy Share Image
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I needed a tough dad. I grew up with a poor single mom in a very bad neighborhood. I was scared my… — Tony Hinchcliffe Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself… — Brad Marchand Copy Share Image