In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect… — Bindi Irwin Copy Share Image
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
“It was-this always seems to shock people all over again- a happy childhood. For the first few months I spent a lot… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Alone From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a macho culture right from… — Sibel Kekilli 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
Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to… — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Tupac. I'm from Chicago and his music helped me kind of get through that phase of my… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
“But if you look under the "girls gone wild" surface, which was easy for me to do since I was sover and… — Rachel DeWoskin Copy Share Image
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“It's all so new, so foreign, so much like that period of childhood -first or second grade, maybe- when you're old enough… — Kevin Hazzard Copy Share Image
My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes.… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood in the suburbs of L.A. My parents instilled in us an appreciation of history, art and, most… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
“Family is not disparate relationships between individuals and machines, in separate rooms of a house. Childhood is not a race to accumulate… — Kim John Payne Copy Share Image
I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
I was able to draw a lot from my own childhood, my friends' childhoods as well and my daughters' friends who are… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
Oh there's so many, but the one that I would love to see, that I would love to go up against, is… — Nia Jax Copy Share Image
With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'… — Adyashanti 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
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So,… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
