My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood. — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family. — Katherine Johnson Copy Share Image
My dream since childhood has been to one-day give back to society and try to improve on what I didn't have during… — Victor Wanyama Copy Share Image
Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts… — David Grann Copy Share Image
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Mad World' hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself… — David Goggins Copy Share Image
“It’s my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
“Every person will become three time child in their life. One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third… — Savan Solanki Copy Share Image
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“They were giving their childhood to this woman! They were starting at seven, and by the time they were sixteen they were… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was unhappy and miserable during the first 28 years of my life...The things that I went through as a kid were… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow. — Mary Cholmondeley Copy Share Image
My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.” — Kathy Mckeon Copy Share Image
“Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things.” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job. — Caroline Pratt Copy Share Image
My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another. — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
Who doesn't love Donna Summer's music? It was part of my childhood, always heard around the house. — LaChanze Copy Share Image
That moment when you look at your childhood pics and say wtf was that really me! — Christine Ramkran Copy Share Image
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive. — Mika Copy Share Image
There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
![“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/22e/anne-lamott-188_childhood_i-don-t-know-where-to-start-one-writing_3064070.jpg)
