What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid. — Will Forte Copy Share Image
Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop. — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
At childhood we cry loudly to get what we like but now when we grown up , we cry silently to forget… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
“...this furtive childhood, this concealed degradation is ready to explode your systems sooner or later.” — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
The scent that reminds me most of my childhood is pine because Colorado has a lot of evergreen pine trees. — Taylor Hill Copy Share Image
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
There were many things in my childhood I sacrificed: I started travelling quite young, compromising school in terms of learning and time… — Valtteri Bottas Copy Share Image
I think I became a gay comedian out of necessity, because what else am I gonna do with that name? And it… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
My mother was an alcoholic, in and out of hospital my entire childhood. My father, a doctor, divorced her when I was… — Geraldine James 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
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
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
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
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
I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer. — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new. — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
“The toughest habits to break are the ones we take with us from childhood.” — Charles F. Glassman 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
I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood. — Urmila Matondkar 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
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
That mind-blowing moment when you realize chores were really the crap your parents didnt want to do. — 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
“A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she… — Diane Grifith Copy Share Image
“Children from all over the world have the same religion, childhood! @ viorel muha” — Viorel Muha Copy Share Image
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood? — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
“Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image