One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
“and I’d scream and run away, flailing my arms but not actually scared, because back then all emotions felt like play, like… — John Green Copy Share Image
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Obviously, many will feel that having a cleaner means I can't talk about being working class with a straight face. I would… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
I do get to have my normal childhood. I just love to get together with my friends and family and have a… — Austin O'Brien Copy Share Image
For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the… — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen. — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
The fact is that my mother is a cop and generally kids of cops are a little different from their parents -… — Vignesh Shivan Copy Share Image
The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
The things I talk about with childhood friends are inevitably different from the things I talk about with friends who are the… — Park Hyung-sik Copy Share Image
I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
