“They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been… — Jenny Wingfield Copy Share Image
“Through them, I was able to make a turn in myself, and somehow that view from the window seen alone and at… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We'd sit around the dinner table and try… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life,… — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
There's no obligation and no obstruction during childhood, life is simple and there is no specific way to live life, but when… — Duhawma Khawlhring Copy Share Image
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Back when I was a kid, I used to tear pages out of magazines and stick them on my bedroom wall -… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
During my childhood, my father, a Southern Baptist minister, and my mother, a teacher, made sure I took educational trips to cities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to...… — Jack Osbourne Copy Share Image
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood)… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
If the experiences in my childhood have helped me become strong, then I can articulate those experiences and perhaps tell people out… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
My childhood overseas instilled in me an appreciation for foreign languages and cultures, but also a deep understanding of the vital role… — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
It's definitely evolved from where it started - for 'Treat Me Like Fire,' I wanted something extremely wild because I was going… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“To be moved confuses the soul. One cannot convey these kinds of memories any more than the events of a dream... ...if… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If I would be born in New Zealand, maybe, I would never write the Polish Requiem or pieces which were connected with… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you… — Rilke Letters to a Young Poet Copy Share Image
“When I look at my own children, Mrs Hargreaves, I think… I think I know what childhood’s for. It’s to give us… — John Logan Copy Share Image
