It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Becoming a part of the Marvel Universe was my childhood dream. Like most kids growing up, I read a lot of comic… — Stefan Kapicic Copy Share Image
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
~¥~ Childhood is the only period where we don't know this world, where we are unaware of what is happening around us.à… — Nadhira Copy Share Image
“I didn't like what that word-'childhood'-conjured up, or rather, I didn't like the way most people use it: that presumption of innocence… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon… — Joan Bennett Copy Share Image
A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Kids are price less. They are loud, funny, loveable, crazy, funny, and a hand full. Even though they look so peaceful and… — Sinahi Martinez Copy Share Image
How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play,… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
I've said publicly, and it's true, I've had a lot of wonderful things come my way. But personally, the greatest thing I… — Archie Manning Copy Share Image
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me… — Russell Westbrook Copy Share Image
“He does not know what caused him to break off from Weston and walk out. Perhaps it was when the boy said… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
If 'Buffy' the movie was the true love of my childhood, 'Buffy' the series quickly became the true love of my teenage… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people,… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
I played many matches and got experience very early. Did I lose some of my childhood? This is one of the things… — Bojan Krkic Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking,… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
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