Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“When did your childhood end? How badly did you get hurt, when you did, when you were this little wee little hurtable… — Will Eno Copy Share Image
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Obviously, many will feel that having a cleaner means I can't talk about being working class with a straight face. I would… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I think life is a lot different for alternative kids nowadays. Texting and the internet mean that being a Goth or something… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the… — Joseph Cornell Copy Share Image
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment,… — Jean-Pascal Tricoire Copy Share Image
What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time… — Gauri Sharma Copy Share Image
When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
'Courtney' is a more punk-rock kids' book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney's terrible behavior trashes. And it's basically about how… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of old, classic American musclecars like a Shelby GT or the '69 Dodge Charger, cars that inspired me… — Ricky Whittle Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the books from our childhood? Those were you could decide yourself what the character should do next? I always… — Lena Goetz Copy Share Image
Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me.… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
In Burma, we need to improve education in the country - not only primary education, but secondary and tertiary education. Our education… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose.… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“[Uh-oh, it's bath time for Calvin.] MOM, who sits in the living room, has turned toward the door. Very likely she is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept.… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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