I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted. — James Carville Copy Share Image
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese. — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
I feel really lucky because I discovered acting when I was really young, I was like nine and I think I had… — Natalia Reyes Copy Share Image
I had good parents. Two older brothers, bit of a handful between us, all got ginger hair, a bit fiery. I remember… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
“Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood. My dad would put me inside a tire and then roll me down a hill. They were… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood in the suburbs of L.A. My parents instilled in us an appreciation of history, art and, most… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
“Children should have the absolute right to a happy childhood and be able to grow up in an environment which fosters their… — John McG. McMaster Copy Share Image
They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
“We, however, have all kinds of different ideas about what happiness is. Some must go bungee jumping to experience a rush of… — Haim Shapira Copy Share Image
“It was-this always seems to shock people all over again- a happy childhood. For the first few months I spent a lot… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
“Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sorrows, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Some may see the tortured existence of the musician as one where he's practicing like hell and being alone, I see it… — Christian Tetzlaff Copy Share Image
