If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences,… — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
Tears of love and equality in the tears of childhood: stubborn as a child are not met Would cry over the lack… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I really wanted to raise my boys in a place where 'celebrity' wasn't important, and where I could be closer to where… — Lauren Holly Copy Share Image
“Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I had heard my brothers and sisters use curse words but had never dared use one myself in front of anyone. But… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“There was a girl who came up to me on the street the other day, she bloomed out of the pavement... and… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I… — Dante Hall Copy Share Image
“I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
I didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my… — William Klein Copy Share Image
“No" — I could never be another person’s father, fate, god, "No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
For me inspiration is pretty much life. The life around you and everything that happens, the people you meet, where you go,… — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I really spent most of my childhood in my bedroom watching Barbra Streisand movies and musicals and making videos. That was kind… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities… — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Jung’s gift for transcending the confines of his own consciousness began, as we have seen, in the fantasy games of his childhood.” — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
