I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied. — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
“I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not.” — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. — Eleanor Porter Copy Share Image
Elephant Man - the name given to Joseph Merrick - was the moniker that haunted my childhood. — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
Stop trying to grow up so fast. Childhood only lasts so long, so savor it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform… — Ken Dodd Copy Share Image
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I think that childhood is innocent, but not in the way we usually believe. I think it's a very sensual age, where… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity,… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“The Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Ann didn't move. There was no use; her mother had seen her. She could try to hide the flowered plates but that… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
“There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
