Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements:… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
I didn't have the easiest childhood. I was never the popular girl in school growing up. I was always the lone black… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi.… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“But what is [the] quality of originality? It is very hard to define or specify. Indeed, to define originality would in itself… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“THE LILIES This morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reeling. People passed… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
“In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many dreams as images from waking life.… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
“Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Most people are afflicted with an inability to say what they see or think. They say there’s nothing more difficult than to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“tried to go to a counselor, but it was just too weird. Talking to some stranger about my feelings made me want… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
I miss when I was a child & I didn't care what people thought. I miss when I would never reject my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 2017, I boxed in front of a home crowd in Sheffield and became the WBA super-middleweight world champion. After four attempts… — George Groves Copy Share Image
Everything that has happened to me in my life has defined who I am, and all of the things leading up to… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
Of all the restaurants I visited in my childhood and adolescence, it was Michel Bras that I remembered most vividly and it… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
My generation was a special generation. I was born in 1960 and in my childhood we were all big manga consumers that… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
We grew up in a nice house in a very middle-class area in Bolton and had a very happy childhood. My mum,… — Amir Khan Copy Share Image
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Listening to him, I realized how lucky I was not to have had a wonderful childhood. Those who do, or those who… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood.… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into… — Constance Fenimore Woolson Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
I wouldn't trade the childhood we had because, A, It was normal to me, even though, in hindsight, it's not normal. It… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his… — Augustus Napier Copy Share Image
My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I grew up watching lots of different films, lots of different styles and genres from lots of different countries, so 'Apostle' is… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image