I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
“Who was it who said childhood was a thing that ruined everyone's life? Why was it, I wondered, that the human species… — Wendy Jean Copy Share Image
Im 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
“(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the… — André Breton Copy Share Image
As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
It amazes me that the new age of parenting gives children choices. When I was a child the choice I had was… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I was always told that I am petite and can get hurt easily. And I always felt the need to… — Nushrat Bharucha Copy Share Image
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not… — Maksim Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
My first book was signed up when I was 13, and I've been writing ever since. But penning the 'Halo' series has… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
“Even in the little while she'd been teaching, she'd met parents who didn't seem to care about their children, regarding them as… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
What I miss most about San Jose? I miss my family. I miss my house. I miss my backyard. My backyard is… — Aaron Gordon Copy Share Image
“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen As others saw - I could not… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old… — Dries Mertens Copy Share Image
It's amazing. It is like yesterday when I was still watching the stars of Brazilian football on TV, and I am one… — Ronaldo Copy Share Image
To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a… — Christian McEwen Copy Share Image
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I… — Selena Copy Share Image
Truthfully, my childhood was so fun. Everything was new, and everything was like Christmas because we were just from this small town,… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
As much as I liked Wolves as a boy and it was a childhood dream to play and perhaps manage for the… — Sam Allardyce Copy Share Image
Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to… — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Now-a-days 12 year olds have a Blackberry, an iPad, a laptop, & a Facebook profile. When I was 12, I felt Cool… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger.… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time… — May-Britt Moser Copy Share Image
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work"… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
