Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to… — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would… — Alfred Schnittke Copy Share Image
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can… — Florence Littauer Copy Share Image
(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!” In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of blossoming; here… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The Babar the Elephant book is sitting in front of me. I pick it up and start reading it. I remember reading… — james frey Copy Share Image
I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment,… — Jean-Pascal Tricoire Copy Share Image
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
We'd wait for my dad to come home from work, and he'd take 15, 20 minutes to just throw a football or… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.” — Carl Barât Copy Share Image
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. — Rachel Stevens Copy Share Image
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time. — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so… — Andy Dick Copy Share Image
I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I had a tough childhood after my father died when I was five, and I had a very difficult stepfather. I want… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood,… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by aeroplanes in my childhood. So, it was like I wanted to study science and then become a pilot. — Mayank Agarwal Copy Share Image
