A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I felt like I got what I wanted out of my childhood. The good really outweighs the bad. — Ruel Copy Share Image
Life was so much easier when your clothes didnt match and boys had cooties. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my… — Goldie Copy Share Image
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age. — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood,’ — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
That mind-blowing moment when you realize chores were really the crap your parents didnt want to do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
“He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood,… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of… — Lucien Bouchard Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter. I've moved on from something that was never there to begin with. That's one of the dire things about… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a… — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
“Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In terms of my childhood, it was normal. You go through school, do well in school, and then I went to university.… — Manny Jacinto Copy Share Image
There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image