I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be. — Mark Lester Copy Share Image
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. — Leverett Saltonstall Copy Share Image
I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.” — AnnaMarie Ralph Copy Share Image
I miss the days when the biggest decision I had to make was which Spice Girl I wanted to be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.” — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there… — Nancy Marchand Copy Share Image
“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
Here's something a little more personal: In my teens, I was having a hard time and ended up in a therapy group… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages of early childhood. Learning to walk, learning… — Jake Arrieta Copy Share Image
I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so… — Andy Dick Copy Share Image
My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To… — Hans Bellmer Copy Share Image
I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
