In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
You treat me like some Five year old kid..IM NOT FIVE!Okay,well maybe I act like it when I watch little kid /… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits,… — Suharto Copy Share Image
Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
My mum was the most wonderful cook and our house was always full of delicious food and interesting people. I remember dad… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Although we experience the ego as the continuing centre of our existence it is, in fact, merely the Self’s executive. ‘For indeed… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I began to watch places with an interest so exact it might have been memory. There was that street corner, with the… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry,… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I found this website, The Experience Project, which has people write first-hand experiences of their life and what they went through. There… — Lindsey Morgan Copy Share Image
While increasing acceptance of gays marks my generational experience - Ellen DeGeneres is welcomed into the living rooms of millions of Americans… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep."… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Although I've never been in an abusive relationship, when my dad had a drink he could become very aggressive and sometimes he'd… — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“All infants and children require and deserve comfort in order to develop properly. Soft cooing voices, gentle touch, smiles, cleanliness, and wholesome… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
Our development as a person is greatly affected by the people around us during our childhood. You turn out to be who… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“I wish we could start over. I wish we were meeting for the first time. Clean slate.’ Haley considers this. It’s such… — Maria Padian Copy Share Image
For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For me, there's a thing that happens, even with the heat in Charleston, where there's a, I don't know, there's just an… — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not… — Maksim Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
My first book was signed up when I was 13, and I've been writing ever since. But penning the 'Halo' series has… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
