I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
I grew up in Beijing, and there weren't many modern buildings during my childhood. I was influenced by traditional culture - the… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In theory, and in law, childhood and adolescence last up until the age of eighteen. I don't think that's true; lots of… — Albert Espinosa Copy Share Image
There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
“I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take.… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
“When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows,… — Bich Minh Nguyen Copy Share Image
I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable,… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I grew up listening to my mother scoff at all the T.V shows and books that I watched or read. She told… — Trisscar Copy Share Image
“My mother is European and expresses her love through food and cuddling. She wasn't the type of mother who would make it… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The things I talk about with childhood friends are inevitably different from the things I talk about with friends who are the… — Park Hyung-sik Copy Share Image
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
“And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
You know, 'Mad Max' and 'The Road Warrior' was part of my childhood, and that's why I'm so close to it. I… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
At home, my personal life was regularly falling apart, and from childhood on, I had a lot of chaos. I was addicted… — Ginger Zee Copy Share Image
My childhood was the worst thing on earth. I'm very lucky to have gotten out of that, but I spent 15 years… — Tana Mongeau Copy Share Image
You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every… — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
Throughout my childhood, when I raised my blanket in the morning, I saw a black, sparkling powder float off it. My socks… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
“Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never… — Vicky Kaushal Copy Share Image
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
My dad spent most of my childhood behind bars. He went to jail 17 or 18 times. It was only when he… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
