“A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Teresa, can you hear me? Don’t fall! Don’t fall, Teresa!” Teresa could hear her granny, but she just kept being wild.” — Christina Gitta-Low Copy Share Image
“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. — Homer Copy Share Image
We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I had good parents. Two older brothers, bit of a handful between us, all got ginger hair, a bit fiery. I remember… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them.… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
Winnie the Pooh was such a part of my childhood. My kindergarten was named Pooh Corner, after one of A.A. Milne's collections… — Alex Lawther Copy Share Image
Like many nerdy youngsters I spent much of my childhood listening to Monty Python records, learning them verbatim, fittingly parroting them. — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we… — Scoot McNairy Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I want children to fall into the pond per se, though I can’t really see what harm it would… — Claire-Louise Bennett Copy Share Image
I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
