I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I am like this. I never go parties and attend functions. — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood. — Caspar Weinberger Copy Share Image
I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I’d been raised to be practical and keep my emotions in check, but I loved cars. That was one of the few… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
'Goosebumps,' actually, was a very big part of my childhood, growing up, and it inspired me to get into horror and all… — Dylan Minnette Copy Share Image
The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
My childhood memories are filled with hugs and kisses from both my mum and dad. My mum has a thing about kissing… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods;… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image