“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
In childhood I always wanted to grow up, but now realize that broken pencil and unfilled homeworks are better than broken hearts… — Babloo Copy Share Image
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You don't know what I've been through. The childhood I've had. How much I hate myself. What I do to myself when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I got into a fight in my 10th-grade year, and it was on ESPN. It was a mistake, and you learn from… — O. J. Mayo Copy Share Image
“What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as… — Tim Macartney-Snape Copy Share Image
My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland or Narnia, no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Cancer magnifies the in-betweenness of young adulthood: You're not a child anymore, yet you're not fully ready to live in the adult… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the… — Adolf Eichmann Copy Share Image
Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes;… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
It was my childhood dream to become an actress, and I've worked hard to get to this stage. So I am enjoying… — Nidhhi Agerwal Copy Share Image
When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back… — Ann Bancroft Copy Share Image
This song 'Calma' has been a blessing, an unexpected one. When I wrote the song, I wasn't looking for a single, I… — Pedro Capo Copy Share Image
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I was never happy, and neither were many of my friends. We were just normal kids that were not so excellent at… — Sung Jin Park Copy Share Image
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood,… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up in Nova Scotia most of my life. And three years of my childhood we actually spent in Toronto and… — Craig Olejnik Copy Share Image
Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In theory, and in law, childhood and adolescence last up until the age of eighteen. I don't think that's true; lots of… — Albert Espinosa Copy Share Image
There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
I grew up in Beijing, and there weren't many modern buildings during my childhood. I was influenced by traditional culture - the… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
You know, 'Mad Max' and 'The Road Warrior' was part of my childhood, and that's why I'm so close to it. I… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
“I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my… — John Clare Copy Share Image
In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
