Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
It is true that our development as a person is greatly affected by the people around us during our childhood. You turn… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
“Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of toothache, a thrashed backside,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
“Yeah, just what I needed, a massive three-day Hostess binge, followed by a week of trying to replicate recipes so that if… — Stacey Ballis Copy Share Image
“But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
“This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes… — Bruce Fuller Copy Share Image
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“ Charles de Lint creates a magical world that’s not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Snow is...a beautiful reminder of life and all its quirks. It makes me pause. Think. Stay still. Even my mind takes the… — R.B. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The upbringing based on criticizing the wrong and rejecting it since childhood is considered to be one of the factors that support… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
The biggest piece is my family... From watching films like The Godfather on our dining room wall, to having a great relationship… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
“It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by my surroundings. That's why I create dresses or videos around simple everyday things! I also love playing with nostalgic… — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe. And I had a pretty idyllic childhood. I felt that I was kind of this outspoken… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
“That was the one moment he would always remember. The unhappiest moment of a happy childhood. The empty desolation of being on… — Jim Kelly Copy Share Image
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
“No matter where you came from, there was something, someone out in the world or under the bed that frightened you as… — Erin M. Evans Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free,… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“[At first, Calvin's at school, in his classroom.] CALVIN'S TEACHER: "We'll see what the principal has to say about your attention span,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“I am the child of this pitiful century the child that didn’t grow up The questions that burned my tongue have burned… — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
“Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Our real human nature is revealed better when we are confronted with limited situations, and I think that life itself is an… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I feel like there are stages in many, many people's childhoods when you don't have one good friend. It can happen a… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
![“[At first, Calvin's at school, in his classroom.] CALVIN'S TEACHER: "We'll see what the principal has to say about your attention span, young man." A THOUGHT BUBBLE FANTASY FROM CALVIN's MIND (With visuals to match.) "The valiant Spaceman Spiff has been captured." A THOUGHT BUBBLE FANTASY FROM…” quote by Bill Watterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/63e/bill-watterson-728_attention-span_at-first-calvin-s-at-school-in-his-class_2747925.jpg)
