The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I think I'm the filmmaker who knows the most about strangers' unrequited loves and childhood sweethearts. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!"… — Nicki Chapman Copy Share Image
“Do you know how you can tell a professional writer from an amateur?" "No." "An amateur worries about the work before starting.… — Avi Copy Share Image
“When my relationship failed due to her secret affairs, I struggled with how my abandonment of the child would affect their future… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I have been watching the Filmfare Awards, and it has always been very special to anyone who works in the… — Dhanush Copy Share Image
I figured out that I could think of my childhood dog that had died, and I could bring myself to tears. So… — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“Alone From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
“It was-this always seems to shock people all over again- a happy childhood. For the first few months I spent a lot… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect… — Bindi Irwin Copy Share Image
Oh there's so many, but the one that I would love to see, that I would love to go up against, is… — Nia Jax Copy Share Image
I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
