My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that… — David Furnish Copy Share Image
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
I miss being little...Falling asleep on the sofa and being transported to your bed...Now my moms like get the hell up and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays,… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm of childhood it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We need kids to remind us of how incredible this world is. People are increasingly losing their childhoods too soon, and that's… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Some of my most vivid childhood memories involve cards: loud, energetic, often brutally competitive games of racing demon, played at high speed… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally.… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed… — Mary-Rose MacColl Copy Share Image
it was my first doll that water went into and water came out of much earlier it was the diaper I wore… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught… — Hansika Motwani Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
“When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
“Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed… — Pauline Fisk Copy Share Image
They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.” — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think I grew up a bit quickly. I wish I was younger than I am in my head. I feel like… — Elena Tonra Copy Share Image
When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
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