“It stopped when we tried to prove it existed, like a secret that doesn’t want to be believed.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to think that the moon is following our car everywhere. — Michael Angelo De Leon Copy Share Image
By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures. — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention. — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“He’d had a dog once, in that way he’d had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood. — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
“I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Comedy comes from childhood only. The humour genes you are born with remain with you. I was always making mischief and making… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger.… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Now-a-days 12 year olds have a Blackberry, an iPad, a laptop, & a Facebook profile. When I was 12, I felt Cool… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
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
A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking,… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
