My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined. — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then… — Elizabeth Thornton Copy Share Image
“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I don't have the songwriter's obligatory sob story. My sister and I both had a very happy, normal childhood and we've turned… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration.… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone… — John Goddard Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose of my writing about the various experiences of my life? It is not for publicity, but with the… — Ernest Albert Law Copy Share Image
“Calvin's Mom confronts him as he stands at the open front door, going to school: Calvin, are you going to take that… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I have great memories from childhood. Of course, the divorce, when I was 11, was tough. But my mom, especially, did a… — Malcolm Brogdon Copy Share Image
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood,… — Natasha Richardson Copy Share Image
There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I grew up in one of those households where, growing up in Detroit, you gravitate towards music and cars because we were… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
“Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
There's a lot I might think I know about a person but then, when they start to talk about themselves and their… — Eddie Howe Copy Share Image
I basically wanted to use the experiences I've gone through, the struggles of my childhood and kind of use the character that… — Liv Morgan Copy Share Image
Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have… — Lindsay Fox Copy Share Image
Squid Game' is a story about human nature that most people can already relate to, yet everything is communicated through easy-to-follow childhood… — HoYeon Jung Copy Share Image
I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus… — Yani Tseng Copy Share Image
I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'. — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
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