The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood. — Beau Mirchoff Copy Share Image
I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did… — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty. — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
“Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life. — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they… — Wanda Coleman Copy Share Image
Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can, in turn, be a… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if… — Joyce Brothers 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
“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 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
Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock 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
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things even as greater things crumbled. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image