I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away,… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
My kind of childhood comic ideal was Tim Conway. And just because I always loved that he could do so much without… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“Why could this darkness rip the gloominess around me Had an unknown reason of being fearful for so long Thinking, if its… — Shumila Shah Copy Share Image
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it.… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the Mary J. Blige persona wouldn't lend itself to the big kid persona, but that's exactly who she is. She… — Cameron Britton Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood.… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I was very preppy in my childhood. I also went through an anti-clothing moment where I just wanted to wear sweats because… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd put my arms in my shirt and told people I lost my arms. Would restart the video… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Her eyes had to adjust to the night sky. She walked away from the house, out of the spill of electric light,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Maybe universal nostalgia doesn't exist. Maybe each of us carries our own personal version of the better times. It's at about twnety-two… — Caleb J. Ross Copy Share Image
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious,… — Brenda Webster Copy Share Image
I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora.… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder,… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about having been traumatized with the look in childhood is that we can erroneously transfer and project our memory… — Pete Walker Copy Share Image
Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood,… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
“We seemed to share certain ideas about what happens in childhood, when you have to place yourself under the sign of your… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I… — Tim Hudson Copy Share Image
In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
“DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child--I am… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
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