“Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I'm so thankful for dance because if I had grown up with just the bitterness of the very hard childhood we had,… — Motsi Mabuse Copy Share Image
People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on,… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I guess I'm pretty lucky because in childhood I studied so many martial arts styles and I never stopped researching them, my… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'm sad that my childhood came just slightly before the lithium-ion-battery boom, because I would've killed for the cheap radio-controlled helicopters they… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken. There was no sudden jolt, no immediate awakening and no… — Judith Kinghorn Copy Share Image
It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I love St. Ives and Fowey. I have childhood memories of the Headland Hotel, where 'The Witches' was filmed, standing on the… — Suranne Jones Copy Share Image
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time.… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
“Essentially all serial offenders experience trauma in childhood that leaves them unable to form normal emotional and psychological connections with other humans.” — Joanna Schaffhausen Copy Share Image
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out… — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
My main motive for going into children's literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Part of me is stuck in my childhood in the Eighties. I actually watch 'The Neverending Story,' 'Labyrinth,' and 'Legend' over and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at… — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I have this dream of directing. But as a child, I wanted to become a wrestler. Like, in childhood, we used to… — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
“Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Memories were in my mind during nearly all the concerts I've done, and I realized the deep connection to my childhood, when… — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My listeners have been so respectful. I do have a boundary for myself. I only talk about one of my childhood best… — Alex Cooper Copy Share Image
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Every person's childhood story is unique, just like we are all meant to be unique. But the influence of surroundings play an… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“All her life she would associate liquor with her childhood. When she was alone and did not wish to be, a drink… — Pamela Moore Copy Share Image
“Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they… — Chris Galford Copy Share Image