“She'd loved birds long before her physical limitations kept her grounded. She'd found a birding diary of her grandmother's in a trunk… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader.… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“I’ve long suspected that many of my memories of childhood are actually drawn from old pictures, that they are a composite of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why I was upset about not being an adult. It was right around the corner. Becoming a child again… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live… — Aaron Kampman Copy Share Image
“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my… — Karan Singh Grover Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water--it has a memory of what it once filled, always… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“I no longer missed the restless anticipation I'd experienced during my childhood and the surges of joy and sadness that came with… — Mengestu Dinaw Copy Share Image
To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinted on me from childhood, because… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I have been an ardent cricket fan since childhood. I started out as a fast bowler and I was selected for Indias… — Harrdy Sandhu Copy Share Image
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood…….… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own share of troubles, so… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
“The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“She said, "Daddy thinks that all the world's magic is almost evolved out." I thought of Roebuck Lake, its swamps and sloughs… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than… — Charlette Mikulka Copy Share Image
“What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real - and certainly… — Patrick Harpur Copy Share Image
“Childhood: it was like trying to chart an entire continent by the brief flare of a firework. Except that you had no… — Edward Docx Copy Share Image
Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take.… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
“When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows,… — Bich Minh Nguyen Copy Share Image
I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable,… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
“My mother is European and expresses her love through food and cuddling. She wasn't the type of mother who would make it… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I grew up listening to my mother scoff at all the T.V shows and books that I watched or read. She told… — Trisscar Copy Share Image
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
