“They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
“The other trait particularly influenced by upbringing is appreciation. The twin and adoption studies show that “parents have a noticeable effect on… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Until feminists started wailing about the female's passivity, submissiveness, and something called 'victim status,' I had no idea women were such doormats.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
When I talk about it, now people imagine I had an impoverished childhood, especially when I tell people we used to have… — Troy Deeney Copy Share Image
“Who can know when his world is going to change? . . . Who would suspect that in the morning a different… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood,… — Aaliyah Copy Share Image
“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood,… — Frank Leslie Copy Share Image
I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turnt darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin'… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie.… — Brittany Curran Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want… — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair;… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When I was 16 and in 'Prospect,' I listened to Elliott Smith in between takes. Listening to him reminds me of being… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
“on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We… — Lee Westwood Copy Share Image
Honestly, the America of my childhood I'm not convinced is available anymore to my own children, and that is a significant motivation… — George Brauchler Copy Share Image
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy. — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
