“And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the… — Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
“Suffering through his classes, the young Igor steeped himself in angst. He would later describe his childhood as 'a period of waiting… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty,… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could… — Craig Seymour Copy Share Image
“Her own dolls were either babies or storybook characters like Cinderella and Snow White who though past childhood were somehow not yet… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of how important food was until I was at real rock bottom. When I was 46, I sat in… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I grew up wanting to play in Nike, but both my high school and college wore something else. So to be able… — A'ja Wilson Copy Share Image
When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like… — Christy Carlson Romano Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty chaotic. When my parents got divorced, my dad moved in with five other crime scene detectives. I remember… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Love may not be enough to wake a child in the morning, dress him, and get him to school, then to feed… — Andrew Bridge Copy Share Image
“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And… — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'd like to be a kid again but only because naps were insisted, twirling in circles was acceptable, and the only password… — Adar Burks Copy Share Image
Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things,… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
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