The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing,… — SZA Copy Share Image
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Anything new is a sort of adventure - as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“Tentei não fazer nada na minha vida que envergonhasse a criança que fui. Quando me for deste mundo, partirão duas pessoas. Sairei… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound… — Jon Tenney Copy Share Image
“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
If we want to make sense of our behavior - all the best, worst, and everything in between - we're not going… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure… — John R. Commons Copy Share Image
“I believed in childhood by authority, in youth by sentiment, in my mature years by reason; now I believe because I have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
“...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
Without being conscious of it, she looks for a situation in which she can give up her façade of self-sufficiency and ease… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
I didn't have a great childhood, and neither did Debbie, my wife, so we both try to give the kids not only… — Theo Paphitis Copy Share Image
I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I have played for Rizvi since childhood. I have led Rizvi myself for six years, and we continuously won the Harris Shield… — Prithvi Shaw Copy Share Image
“She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think it's a great tragedy of childhood that you only really appreciate it once it's done: it's very hard to feel… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I’d been raised to be practical and keep my emotions in check, but I loved cars. That was one of the few… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
'Goosebumps,' actually, was a very big part of my childhood, growing up, and it inspired me to get into horror and all… — Dylan Minnette Copy Share Image
The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
