I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those… — Greg Berlanti Copy Share Image
I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
“Pedophiles the world over. If you want to do that insufferable thing you do without care, concern, and/or worry; become a Catholic… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Since my childhood, I was that girl who would walk into a movie hall starry-eyed having this hunch that I will be… — Amrita Rao Copy Share Image
Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
“Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I thought back to a childhood memory: the first dead body I'd ever seen was the body of an immigrant washed up… — Kareem Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am a super nostalgic person in general. I think part of the reason that I'm in the film business is because,… — Jordan Vogt-Roberts Copy Share Image
“Katja kneeled in the Parisian streets, shaking and weak from the pain in her head and heart. It had come a second… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
I grew up on these long, drawn-out stories with four pay-per-views a year where things paid off. Everything was done for a… — Tommaso Ciampa Copy Share Image
When you get married and have your own family, it gives you the opportunity to look back on your own childhood I… — Jermaine Jenas Copy Share Image
I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
During my childhood my family risked a lot financially. They put every single penny they could into my racing and also their… — Valtteri Bottas Copy Share Image
“They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just… — Gerry Boyle Copy Share Image
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food..… — Hank Snow Copy Share Image
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I… — David Coleman Copy Share Image
“In the tapestry of childhood, what stands out is not the splashy, blow-out trips to Disneyland but the common threads that run… — Kim John Payne Copy Share Image
It helps you during more difficult phases too, when you think back and remember that you managed to achieve your greatest childhood… — Kai Havertz Copy Share Image
I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed… — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
During our childhood, my sister and I had no birthday parties. We would take a packet of sweets to school and distribute… — Sanjay Leela Bhansali Copy Share Image
Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of… — Lauren Faust Copy Share Image
I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
With three of my own children, I have witnessed first-hand the vital role reading has played as part of their childhood and… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
“As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I joined a meetup group called Bay Area Parents for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which I had searched for, as I was going… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Since my childhood I always knew that India was a land of scarcity but this has changed ever since the BJP started… — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
