Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The fact is that my mother is a cop and generally kids of cops are a little different from their parents -… — Vignesh Shivan Copy Share Image
“The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed-in once,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
“If your mother lived your life as though it were her own-never allowing you a moment of stress or frustration, routinely sleeping… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
“I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously… — Robert Manne Copy Share Image
People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles… — Halima Aden Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
That childhood passion and involvement and being really submerged in something, that's the kind of state I'm looking for all the time… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the… — James Arness Copy Share Image
“Listening to him, I realized how lucky I was not to have had a wonderful childhood. Those who do, or those who… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
I went to public schools in Bangor, Maine, and had as normal a childhood as you could imagine someone could, living in… — Owen King Copy Share Image
We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I felt very lucky that I not only got to be on Piper's Pit and work with Rowdy Roddy Piper who I… — Wade Barrett Copy Share Image
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Even if you've gone through an average childhood, you have girlfriends who get pregnant and then have to choose whether or not… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
“I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think that's something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect… — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
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