“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound… — Jon Tenney Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
You're the hero of your own story. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it…I suspect that deep inthe memory… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I… — Tony Vlachos 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
A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about… — Bell Hooks 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
My mother did an incredible job - one, of just being a great mom, but two, of instilling a tremendous amount of… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions,… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were… — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“As a boy, Ogion like all boys had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art-magic whatever shape… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed . . . that… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
If we want to make sense of our behavior - all the best, worst, and everything in between - we're not going… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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