Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“It was one way she had found to fill her solitary childhood, but it was more than that; the act of creation… — Cathy Holton Copy Share Image
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit,… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
I'm not the most sophisticated person. I'm not the smartest person in the world. But, I know what makes me excited about… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
It stuns me how effective children can be in their messaging, and I believe that every child should enjoy that basic right… — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Among the first questions a native mother asks her child in the morning is: what did you dream? When I heard this… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.'… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I was born in April of 1966, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Soon after, my parents and grandparents all lost… — Li Lu Copy Share Image
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
My mum was the most wonderful cook and our house was always full of delicious food and interesting people. I remember dad… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I first got interested in music as a toddler by my childhood babysitter, Rosetta Atkins. She taught me how to sing by… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” – FLANNERY O’CONNOR” — Herman Lategan Copy Share Image
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
“Childhood is like that, so full of treasures. I've tried to bring as many of those treasures with me, into adulthood, as… — Sonya Chung Copy Share Image
I was perpetually this B-minus kid vacillating between eagerness and depression. I wasn't a bad kid, and I definitely wasn't aggressive, but… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Being an 80s baby was the best. Dang, remember Lambchops, Reading Rainbow, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? We had the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional… — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
A large part of my childhood was spent holding a cricket bat. The first time I picked one up was in the… — Stuart Broad Copy Share Image
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
As a former victim of childhood sexual abuse, my position is unwavering when it comes to speaking out against the hypersexualization of… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
From childhood, I grew up with a lot of apprehensions about my body and appearance. I was skinny, had acne on my… — Jasmin Bhasin Copy Share Image
If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools,… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
