In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turnt darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood,… — Frank Leslie Copy Share Image
My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin'… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie.… — Brittany Curran Copy Share Image
I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“She worked three jobs to support us. Eventually, she got strong again. And there was never another argument in the house. We… — Sibel Hodge Copy Share Image
Let's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want… — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Some stories are rooted in adventure, some in strife. Others are born of the heart, and the horrors and the joys locked… — David E. Hilton Copy Share Image
I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And… — Angela Bowie Copy Share Image
I went through my rebellious phase, not in my teenage years, but around age 12. The year I decided I didn't want… — Jessica White Copy Share Image
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
“The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most… — Saint Remigius Copy Share Image
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot… — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image