From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
I wish I was still that little girl..the one that the only kind of hurt was when I scraped my knees. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My early childhood was spent living by the Pacific Ocean. I carry with me something imprinted by that wide, limitless horizon, which… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
We'd wait for my dad to come home from work, and he'd take 15, 20 minutes to just throw a football or… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
“I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“A four-year-old has so little past, and he remembers almost none of it, neither the father he once had nor the house… — Larry Watson Copy Share Image
My parents were willing to spend time and invest time in my hobbies, no matter how odd they seemed. When I was… — Daniel Schwartz Copy Share Image
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
What kind of thoughts make you feel good? Thoughts of love, appreciation, gratitude, joyful childhood experiences? Thoughts in which you rejoice that… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“When I was five years old, my father bought a little yellow-haired pup for fifty cents. He was the light and joy… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Purple: my favourite colour, why? It was the colour of the flowers on my Nanna's dishes and I loved her tea cake;… — April S. Rolfe Copy Share Image
“One of my earliest childhood memories is getting birdshot picked out of my backside by my mother, Mary. My mother would say,… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
There had been signs since my childhood, and you kind of just get to the point where you allow the whisper to… — Gabby Windey Copy Share Image
To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods;… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
My childhood memories are filled with hugs and kisses from both my mum and dad. My mum has a thing about kissing… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“Childhood is, or has been, or ought to be, the great original adventure, a tale of privation, courage, constant vigilance, danger, and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way… — Kristen Crockett Copy Share Image
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image