My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one’s parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood… — Johnny Reid Copy Share Image
Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger. We can encourage programs that collect and distribute excess prepared food to local… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Gradually our surroundings became more residential. We passed wide, open doorways. These I checked automatically, but they offered no danger, only miscellaneous… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Everything that has happened to me in my life has defined who I am, and all of the things leading up to… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Throughout my childhood, I had served as an interpreter for my family. When I left home, I also left the Deaf community.… — Kambri Crews Copy Share Image
Inspiration is everywhere - life, travel, childhood, nature - it depends on how you see it, how you can absorb the inspiration,… — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults.… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion,… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“With simplification we can bring an infusion of inspiration to our daily lives; set a tone that honors our families' needs before… — Kim John Payne Copy Share Image
As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his… — Augustus Napier Copy Share Image
I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation…There is no… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am somebody who is very comfortable on stage because I have been performing since childhood. I have done a lot of… — Neha Kakkar Copy Share Image
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image