Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform… — Ken Dodd Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity,… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
I think that childhood is innocent, but not in the way we usually believe. I think it's a very sensual age, where… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell 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 want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King 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
That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon… — Joan Bennett Copy Share Image
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they… — Wanda Coleman Copy Share Image
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like… — Christy Carlson Romano Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty chaotic. When my parents got divorced, my dad moved in with five other crime scene detectives. I remember… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I grew up wanting to play in Nike, but both my high school and college wore something else. So to be able… — A'ja Wilson Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of how important food was until I was at real rock bottom. When I was 46, I sat in… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things,… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I'd like to be a kid again but only because naps were insisted, twirling in circles was acceptable, and the only password… — Adar Burks Copy Share Image
My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Love may not be enough to wake a child in the morning, dress him, and get him to school, then to feed… — Andrew Bridge Copy Share Image
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