My VHS collection certainly contains videos that I've had since childhood, and also tapes that my mom had taped off of the… — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences… — Matt Ridley 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
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
To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn't quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity,… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
The movies were so healing for me because I had such an isolated, lonely childhood. Going to the movies and having the… — Michael De Luca Copy Share Image
“I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
I loved my childhood, sometimes I wish I could go back to it - not a care in the world! Actually, that's… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
That childhood passion and involvement and being really submerged in something, that's the kind of state I'm looking for all the time… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
Like most kids, I learnt to ride a bike by falling off and getting back on again. I was 6 and not… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,'… — Colin Trevorrow Copy Share Image
“No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like… — Pat Cunningham Devoto Copy Share Image
It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
The angels started visiting and helping me as far back as I can remember. I was lonely a lot in my childhood… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my… — Karan Singh Grover Copy Share Image
'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and… — Claire Denis 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
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