“Boredom is not the enemy of childhood. It’s the birthplace of imagination, persistence, and quiet strength.” — P. Pra. Sandhyaya Copy Share Image
The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood. — Daryl Sabara Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“The poor lads called and called, but they were grown and had forgotten the best places to hide.” — J Anderson Coats Copy Share Image
I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at… — Keisha Castle-Hughes Copy Share Image
I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter. — Jean Kennedy Smith Copy Share Image
“From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.” — Shogo Oketani Copy Share Image
I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And… — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
“Love may not be enough to wake a child in the morning, dress him, and get him to school, then to feed… — Andrew Bridge Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty chaotic. When my parents got divorced, my dad moved in with five other crime scene detectives. I remember… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like… — Christy Carlson Romano Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I grew up wanting to play in Nike, but both my high school and college wore something else. So to be able… — A'ja Wilson Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu’s angels. They were like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
