The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
My Twitter is a joke toilet, and I filter all these old, cringe-y parts of my brother and my childhood through that… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Like so many of the bits of conversation I recall, the meanings hidden in childhood only become clear now that I write… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the… — Laura Nowlin Copy Share Image
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood.… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable.… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
I started working in a tire shop when I was 12, so my childhood was cut off early because I had to… — Alex Pereira Copy Share Image
We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood… — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
If I could perform on stage with any musical act or performer, it would be Sugar Ray, just to fulfill my childhood… — Chelsea Kane Copy Share Image
In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
She trained as a ballet dancer yet she was an iron fist in a velvet glove. My younger brother Luca and I… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and… — Victor Ortiz Copy Share Image
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since my childhood, I used to tell my parents to keep a tab on their health as if I was a doctor.… — Sai Pallavi Copy Share Image
There were many times in my childhood where, because it was either chaotic or not that great at home, I'd find refuge… — Griff Copy Share Image
The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“The joy of learning a new thing is what really stimulates the mind. As kids we constantly learnt new things. That is… — Parul Sheth Copy Share Image
Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will… — Gza Copy Share Image
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life… — Ela Bhatt Copy Share Image
I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't… — Bonnie St. John Copy Share Image
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
“Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
