I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in… — Bret McKenzie Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being… — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood… — David Richo Copy Share Image
I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music -… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth,… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I had no childhood, really, so I imagined more than played, and that definitely led to my showbusiness image, the theatrics and… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
I remember arguing with my dad to let me dress up to go to a Halloween party in seventh grade, but I… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about the Wiggles, and how they started, was they had that great background of early childhood development and that's… — Emma Watkins Copy Share Image
“Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary… — Lee Grant Copy Share Image
I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
In my childhood, I used to go to theatres to watch independent singers' outing on screen. I used to be excited about… — Guru Randhawa Copy Share Image
I know that life is full of lessons to be learned, and my children will have to learn their own, but I… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“From childhood you have been everything to me,” he whispered. “Only now, more so. For all of eternity, you will be here,… — Terri Herman-Poncé Copy Share Image
I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I always enjoyed things that made me laugh. My dad introduced me to 'Fawlty Towers' and I loved 'Crackerjack' - that was… — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
When I think back on my childhood and the things that happened to me, there were certain periods of time where I… — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
When my daughter Somah was young, I didn't have much money. But I was fortunate to find a preschool where I could… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to… — Edmund Sears Copy Share Image
![“Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is…” quote by Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2cc/kola-boof-12327_adopting_because-i-was-in-psychiatric-treatment-f_2145600.jpg)
