Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act -… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
Among the most valuable but least appreciated experiences parenthood can provide are the opportunities it offers for exploring, reliving, and resolving one's… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
I just went through my childhood attic with my sister. I'm not an expert, and I don't mean to put myself in… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“When my relationship failed due to her secret affairs, I struggled with how my abandonment of the child would affect their future… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Do you know how you can tell a professional writer from an amateur?" "No." "An amateur worries about the work before starting.… — Avi Copy Share Image
We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
“The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!"… — Nicki Chapman Copy Share Image
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
I feel really lucky because I discovered acting when I was really young, I was like nine and I think I had… — Natalia Reyes Copy Share Image
There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That's because we have it so good", I told her, trying on his deep voice. We impersonated him all the way home,… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Basic human core is good and remains part of divine nature until childhood. It is only later that it is taken over… — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest… — Jared Isaacman Copy Share Image
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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