“I call the violent kind of "upbringing" abuse, not only because children are thus refused the right to dignity and respect as… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
“A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
I grew up on the sets of Bonanza and most of my (childhood) memory is (on the set of) Little House. I… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
“The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
“See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us.… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life… — George Karl Copy Share Image
I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn’t break, or lose its ability to function. It doesn’t… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“He had seen often enough the wilful truncation people undertook upon leaving childhood (and the wonder of its endless possibilities), as if… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
My coaches - and even my parents - wanted to give me the space for exploration to see what I could do.… — Tobin Heath Copy Share Image
Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight… — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
“...childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I think the roots of this antagonism to science run very deep. They're ancient. We see them in Genesis, this first story,… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To… — Hans Bellmer Copy Share Image
I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I miss when I was a child & I didn't care what people thought. I miss when I would never reject my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We're thrilled to be a part of PNC's longstanding commitment to early childhood learning. Their generosity will help us expand the DonorsChoose.org… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
