“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And… — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the… — Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
“Suffering through his classes, the young Igor steeped himself in angst. He would later describe his childhood as 'a period of waiting… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Kids are price less. They are loud, funny, loveable, crazy, funny, and a hand full. Even though they look so peaceful and… — Sinahi Martinez Copy Share Image
“[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me… — Russell Westbrook Copy Share Image
“He does not know what caused him to break off from Weston and walk out. Perhaps it was when the boy said… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
I grew up in Newport, so I went to Boston growing up. The city holds a lot of special memories of my… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day,… — Zendaya 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
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
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
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
I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a… — Christian McEwen Copy Share Image
“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen As others saw - I could not… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old… — Dries Mertens Copy Share Image
It's amazing. It is like yesterday when I was still watching the stars of Brazilian football on TV, and I am one… — Ronaldo 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
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
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
As much as I liked Wolves as a boy and it was a childhood dream to play and perhaps manage for the… — Sam Allardyce Copy Share Image
Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but… — Tim Cope 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
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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