Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I… — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would… — Tove Ditlevsen Copy Share Image
I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids,… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all… — Michael Moschen Copy Share Image
“In the tell-me-again times, (…) when my mom and I lived in a little apartment in a little building downtown, I slept… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
The angels started visiting and helping me as far back as I can remember. I was lonely a lot in my childhood… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Damask roses and white picket fences, a childhood ripe with an array of senses. Forest black against starry skies, Pink clouds dusting… — A.Y. Greyson Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wish my childhood had been less obsessed with the question of why we are here. But that must be the… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
It was a lot to carry out of a childhood--all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina--but a… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“I never meant for you to see that.” “Of course, you wouldn't want me to see that. It's much more difficult to… — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious. I knew the… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My little sisters password for the Disney website is 'MickeyMinnieGoofyPluto' I asked her why...she said 'They told me to use 4 characters.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it's also the… — Derrick Lewis Copy Share Image
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there… — Nancy Marchand Copy Share Image
“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages of early childhood. Learning to walk, learning… — Jake Arrieta Copy Share Image
Here's something a little more personal: In my teens, I was having a hard time and ended up in a therapy group… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so… — Andy Dick Copy Share Image
My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
