I have been a total brat since my childhood. Because of me, my mother's day was over by afternoon as just managing… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
“We seemed to share certain ideas about what happens in childhood, when you have to place yourself under the sign of your… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“You see yourself as if old and wise. I see you really miss your childhood.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I think it's a great tragedy of childhood that you only really appreciate it once it's done: it's very hard to feel… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun. — Mike McCarthy Copy Share Image
A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
“He put off the faith of his childhood quite simply, like a cloak that he no longer needed. At first life seemed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Elephant Man - the name given to Joseph Merrick - was the moniker that haunted my childhood. — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
People who have had severe childhood traumas lack the ability to regulate emotions and, as a result, gravitate toward whatever primitive means… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
That mind-blowing moment when you realize chores were really the crap your parents didnt want to do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half… — Jessica St. Clair Copy Share Image
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing. — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
