Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
“Since there is no such thing as a place of childhood neutrality, your children either worship God or idols.” — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency;… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
As a former victim of childhood sexual abuse, my position is unwavering when it comes to speaking out against the hypersexualization of… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I came into politics because of a real childhood concern about the Cold War. So to me the importance of the nuclear… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
“I was still sitting in childhood when the darkness spoke to me.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not… — Noemie Lenoir Copy Share Image
I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Remember when we were kids and couldn't wait to grow up...what the hell were we thinking? — Keren Zhims Copy Share Image
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
“From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
