“Depressives cannot surrender childhood--not even the pains of childhood.” — Saul Bellow Herzog Copy Share Image
The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
If I hadn't become a chef I would have loved to be a top tennis player, although I was never good enough… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“by the light of Gypsy fires, my sister and I came of age way too soon our childhoods were swept away” — Roo Bardookie Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“I was sick of my miserable childhood, too, the way it followed me across the Atlantic and kept nagging at me to… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety,… — Matt Bellassai Copy Share Image
“I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Listening to him, I realized how lucky I was not to have had a wonderful childhood. Those who do, or those who… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close. — Marguerite Kelly Copy Share Image
My earliest childhood memories are of my dad putting a basketball in my hand and playing with me in our backyard. — Jamal Crawford Copy Share Image
“I spent my childhood and youth on the outskirts of the Alps, in a region that was largely spared the immediate effects… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Who can know when his world is going to change? . . . Who would suspect that in the morning a different… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them. — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image