To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
During my time in the state Senate, I've worked to make sure every Kansas child has the support they need to succeed.… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so… — Jeff Kinney 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
“She'd loved birds long before her physical limitations kept her grounded. She'd found a birding diary of her grandmother's in a trunk… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Kaffman (2009) described childhood victimization as a "silent epidemic", and Finkelhor, Turner, Ormrod, and Hamby (2010) reported that children are the most… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
“Humans never outgrow their need to connect with others, nor should they, but mature, truly individual people are not controlled by these… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
When you’re young, you don’t know that you’re poor, you just know whether or not you’re happy. And i was happy, and… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
“If somewhere deep within me arises some essence of having been a child, one I never experienced, perhaps the purest childness of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
As a child I'm sure I was no different from any other human being struggling to navigate the difficulties and complexities of… — Sam Levinson 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
When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I… — Tim Hudson Copy Share Image
Dave Cockrum's work at Marvel and DC defined my childhood and inspired me to be a comic book creator. Without Dave, there… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot… — Anthony Bourdain 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
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate… — Gregory Crewdson 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
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Like any parent, they've been extremely supportive of my racing throughout my childhood. I mean, my mom says that she didn't want… — Kyle Larson Copy Share Image
To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinted on me from childhood, because… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
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
From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I ask my husband, for example, if he's talked to his childhood best friend recently, he always tells me yes and… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
![“I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]” quote by Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f2b/dani-shapiro-2273_adulthood_i-had-spent-my-childhood-and-the-better_1377892.jpg)
![“My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with little figures.That whole thing [shooting is] about trying to create a world - there's something very connected to childhood and reverie and daydreaming and fantasy.” quote by Gregory Crewdson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5cf/gregory-crewdson-16134_childhood_my-mom-just-recently-reminded-me-that-i_1478476.jpg)
