“God made the family for children. He never intended for the growth, nurturing, and development of childhood to happen in an institution.” — Johnny Carr Copy Share Image
My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer.… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would… — Alfred Schnittke Copy Share Image
We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
For most of my childhood, I grew up in the countryside of England, where it was very suburban - there weren't a… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I… — Bo Bice Copy Share Image
My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers… — Matt Cullen Copy Share Image
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third… — Alan Ritchson Copy Share Image
“Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
In looking at photos from my childhood, I discovered something I did not know... that on my father's birthdays, I have photographs… — Steve Doocy Copy Share Image
Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
The one thing about Essex is that there's a lot of people there that are into their soul music. And I'm talking… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
When I became a principal at the Royal Ballet it was my childhood goal, a dream and I became it at 19.… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved… — Rainey Qualley Copy Share Image
I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect… — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
“Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We had a ranch, growing up, that we used to spend a lot of time at. I guess anything from the ranch… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow,… — Samuel Woodworth Copy Share Image
In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
My mom means everything to me. She has been such an inspiration in terms of just leading by example. Growing up, I… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the… — Luisa Weiss Copy Share Image
Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
My ultimate, ultimate go-to is 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.' I grew up on that. I feel like it's an anthem for… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
