“you’ll find the buildings taller, that the halls are full of ghosts but everything still here is what you remember most” — Savannah Brown Copy Share Image
“Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.” — Richard Blackaby Copy Share Image
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood. — Elena Roger Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...” — C.J. Heck Copy Share Image
I didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I… — Dante Hall Copy Share Image
Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
“I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have no memories of my childhood in Texas. When I was about four, we moved to San Francisco. I was in… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a… — Grace Abbott Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood. — Arnold Gesell Copy Share Image
The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious - and why you should cherish it while it lasts. — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home… — Devon Werkheiser Copy Share Image
I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but loving, and I was together with my sisters, who were my best… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
“Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. — Richard Zera Copy Share Image
The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up, — Lori Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained. — Sofia Carson Copy Share Image
“Most children have been cursed with parents who have forgotten the joy of walking barefoot.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
