I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school.… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Mom would say, 'Get out of the house,' and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying… — Luke Hemsworth Copy Share Image
In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are,… — Joshua Henry Copy Share Image
A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
If you look back over my life, there's been a lot of things that have happened that I really haven't had any… — Caleb Plant Copy Share Image
Course I'm being a diva. I'm starting to lose my head. Yeah, I'm starting to lose the run of myself. I had… — CMAT Copy Share Image
“It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have… — Jonathan Kozol 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
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
“The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders …… — Harry Leslie Smith Copy Share Image
the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers,… — Ocean Vuong 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
The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one… — Danilo Kis Copy Share Image
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
“I have heard it said that a happy childhood is a curse, because what follows can never measure up. All I can… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
Since his childhood, Bappa has observed me singing and practicing and is well aware of all sorts of recording and singing arrangements.… — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
