I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“That night, Gregory dreamt of his mother. It was a dream that he'd have carried to his therapist like a raw, precious… — Marcus Speh Copy Share Image
My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Ann didn't move. There was no use; her mother had seen her. She could try to hide the flowered plates but that… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
“The Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things even as greater things crumbled. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Mistakes are memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I can always tell when my mother, an artist who grew up in Switzerland, starts to feel nostalgic for home. It is… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was real hatred - not the hatred we only read about in novels, which I do not believe in, hatred… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The food of my childhood was revolting because I was a child of rationing. However, I still managed to be a very… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
“After decades of research about how children learn best, here’s what we’ve discovered: Children learn through play. It’s the work of childhood.… — Laurel Schmidt Copy Share Image
Of all my childhood books, 'The Giving Tree and Hope for the Flowers' really did change my early world, but after reading… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood)… — Robert W. Firestone Copy Share Image
“And I felt next to nothing as I walked to the village; I paid my respects to the countryside yet was unable… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world,… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
“She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
