Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader.… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
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“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live… — Aaron Kampman Copy Share Image
That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I've said publicly, and it's true, I've had a lot of wonderful things come my way. But personally, the greatest thing I… — Archie Manning Copy Share Image
It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play,… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me… — Russell Westbrook Copy Share Image
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This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
I played many matches and got experience very early. Did I lose some of my childhood? This is one of the things… — Bojan Krkic Copy Share Image
The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people,… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
If 'Buffy' the movie was the true love of my childhood, 'Buffy' the series quickly became the true love of my teenage… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking,… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
My best friend, Andrew Goldberg - and this is genuinely not me trying to cross-promote, but this new Netflix show I'm doing… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna… — Robin Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
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Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Copy Share Image
Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
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