The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise. — Greg Mortenson 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
“The poor lads called and called, but they were grown and had forgotten the best places to hide.” — J Anderson Coats 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
On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information. — Robert Breault 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 say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter. — Jean Kennedy Smith Copy Share Image
I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
“Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Memories were in my mind during nearly all the concerts I've done, and I realized the deep connection to my childhood, when… — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“and he imagines cars and rides them in his dreams, so lonely growing up among the imaginary automobiles and dead souls of… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
~¥~ Childhood is the only period where we don't know this world, where we are unaware of what is happening around us.à… — Nadhira Copy Share Image
“I didn't like what that word-'childhood'-conjured up, or rather, I didn't like the way most people use it: that presumption of innocence… — Jean-Christophe Valtat 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
I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Becoming a part of the Marvel Universe was my childhood dream. Like most kids growing up, I read a lot of comic… — Stefan Kapicic Copy Share Image
Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
