Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
“Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed… — Pauline Fisk Copy Share Image
I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught… — Hansika Motwani Copy Share Image
For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry,… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“I began to watch places with an interest so exact it might have been memory. There was that street corner, with the… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
I had an Arabic background. but I lived a very scattered childhood. I didn't belong to any one culture, which meant I… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Yes, doing a Kannada film is like a homecoming. This industry is like family to me. I have known people here since… — Meghana Raj Copy Share Image
If Id had a happy childhood I definitely wouldnt have become the person I am - although a bad childhood isnt a… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true.… — Dick Clark Copy Share Image
I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
“That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.” — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
I think I grew up a bit quickly. I wish I was younger than I am in my head. I feel like… — Elena Tonra Copy Share Image
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
I was 10 when I left Kulm, N.D. I had a wonderful childhood there, out playing in the mud. We moved to… — Angie Dickinson Copy Share Image
The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Doing 'Days of Our Lives' was fun. I always am happy when working on the set. I think it reminds me of… — Kyle Richards Copy Share Image
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