Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women. — Florence Pugh Copy Share Image
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
“Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .” — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how… — John Grisham 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
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
I always baked. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of baking with my nan who used to make jam tarts with… — Fearne Cotton Copy Share Image
I keep my children safe and protected from all my baggage. They get to have a normal childhood, and they're not affected… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
Asks an orphaned childhood, I am a sign of someone's sin, or I'm result of mistake of youth their mother's . Whatever.… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
I came into politics because of a real childhood concern about the Cold War. So to me the importance of the nuclear… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It… — Stjepan Hauser Copy Share Image
I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free,… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Oh scattered band, once my playmates, you few Who were amidst the gardens here and there in the city, How hesitantly we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Nobody cares about that. I do have guys every now and then who say - it's always guys by the way, it's… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I suppose there is this little bit of a wild child in me just from growing up on a farm and having… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group].… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“that childhood said to have been mine the difficulty of believing in it the feeling rather of having been born octogenarian at… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I want something mouthwatering and tasty which reminds me of childhood. The scent of a fairground, candy floss, little cakes, chocolates and… — Thierry Mugler Copy Share Image
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn't do much. I was always thinking, but I… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
“It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
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