Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The young remember most deeply… When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie as pedophiles’ continue to roam free in our societies terrorizing the lives of… — Oche Otorkpa Copy Share Image
I look at stuff like the 'The Whole 19 Yards' and it reminds me of my childhood watching shows with Mike Reid… — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We all have incredible relationships to what we eat, to what we don't eat, to what we've eaten since childhood and what… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“In the end it comes down to two rival versions of the English middle afternoon. Post-Barrett, Pink Floyd kept on in a… — Jeremy Harding Copy Share Image
We received our initial inspiration from our family, as from childhood we exhibited an inclination towards art. While Johns randomly drew pictures,… — Joy Mathew Copy Share Image
He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My dad was nuts. He was a very entertaining man, the best story-teller, the best joke-teller, like a big kid. I realised… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“[Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had been a sale of the furniture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country.… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The importance of inclusive behavior was modeled for me early in life. I have many childhood memories of my mother - an… — Lynne Doughtie Copy Share Image
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
My siblings and I had a loving but very chaotic and muddled childhood, and as a result we have sought out lives… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money;… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Rajini sir has always been a part of my life from childhood. And I entered into filmmaking because I was influenced by… — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
My childhood was a mix of ballet classes and debating society. I liked arguing. As a teenager, I wanted to be an… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz],… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems,… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
![“[Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had been a sale of the furniture at our old home, and that Mr. and Miss Murdstone were gone away, and the house was shut up, to be let or sold. I had no part in it while they remained there, but it pained…” quote by Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c92/charles-dickens-34_childhood_peggotty-gave-me-one-piece-of-intelligen_965375.jpg)
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