Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
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I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
“Mum bought me �kite for my sixth birthday. It was beautiful. Snowy white with � long tail of ribbons. She held the… — Katie Dale Copy Share Image
“THIS BOOK is about the reproduction of social advantage and disadvantage across generations in the experience of typical Baltimore youth, anchored in… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school.… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
I’m telling you right now I could make him pop an aneurysm and no one would know. (Nero) Doesn’t that kind of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood,… — Otto Robert Frisch Copy Share Image
“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was very weak in my childhood, and arthritis took a toll on me. But my parents did everything in their might… — Sangram Singh Copy Share Image
“A few minutes after they left, Harold bought the blanket from his bed, surrounded himself with his stuffed-toy animals, and built a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad's massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not… — Noemie Lenoir Copy Share Image
“I never thought to ascribe my mother's emotional and physical exhaustion to the lack of a husband and father; rather, I ascribed… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Why at the beginning of things is there always light? Dorrigo Evans' earliest memories were of sun flooding a church hall in… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for… — Esphyr Slobodkina Copy Share Image
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet,… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up… — Susan Hayward Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was… — David Almond Copy Share Image
You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid people always asked why I didn't act like the rest of my family, and parents would say,… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
“Children ten years old wake up and find themselves here, discover themselves to have been here all along; is this sad? They… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even… — Iona Opie Copy Share Image