My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I was a 'Star Wars' fanatic growing up. I guess I still am. Pretty much for everybody who grew up in the… — Colin O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite. — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome.… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was unhappy and miserable during the first 28 years of my life...The things that I went through as a kid were… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“They were giving their childhood to this woman! They were starting at seven, and by the time they were sixteen they were… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It… — Traci Lords Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“ Tuesday, November 17th. 1896 ... I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
I was kind of, I would say, even obsessed with music. I wanted to start learning piano when I was six years… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most… — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever… pneumonia… Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
I've had a lifelong love affair with football. I was fortunate to be able to live out my childhood dreams. To play… — Mark Schlereth Copy Share Image
While my father has a music group of his own, my mother sings devotional songs. So, right from childhood I would sit… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half… — Jessica St. Clair Copy Share Image
![“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/22e/anne-lamott-188_childhood_i-don-t-know-where-to-start-one-writing_3064070.jpg)
