“Up in the garret, where Jo's unquiet wanderings ended, stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owner's… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city.… — Luca Parmitano Copy Share Image
I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
One of my favorite Finals was actually Detroit vs. Los Angeles, because it was home and home for me, personally. It was… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I found 'Bordertown' when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by speed... My father was always an enthusiast and once I found a passion in racing, I had… — Christian Horner Copy Share Image
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood,… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
Children are incurable romantics. Brimful of romance and tragedy, we whirl through childhood hopelessly in love with our parents. In our epic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty. — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
Every person's childhood story is unique, just like we are all meant to be unique. But the influence of surroundings play an… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“All her life she would associate liquor with her childhood. When she was alone and did not wish to be, a drink… — Pamela Moore Copy Share Image
“Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they… — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My listeners have been so respectful. I do have a boundary for myself. I only talk about one of my childhood best… — Alex Cooper Copy Share Image
The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
My aim is helping kids. Kids are the future. I love children. I'm thinking of my own childhood. I know where I'm… — Mesut Ozil Copy Share Image
I led a sheltered life until I went to college. But I wasn't deprived and I can't say I missed anything as… — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
My childhood was basically divided between fishing and roaming the woods and hiding out in my bedroom. Maybe things would've turned out… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity,… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I think that childhood is innocent, but not in the way we usually believe. I think it's a very sensual age, where… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
![“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take…” quote by C. Sommerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cce/c-sommerville-39957_age_quintilian-educational-writer-in-rome-ar_1241305.jpg)
![“The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d5b/paul-auster-351_childhood_the-childhood-scenes-in-the-tree-of-life_1372173.jpg)
