I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I… — Selena Copy Share Image
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
Truthfully, my childhood was so fun. Everything was new, and everything was like Christmas because we were just from this small town,… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
What I miss most about San Jose? I miss my family. I miss my house. I miss my backyard. My backyard is… — Aaron Gordon Copy Share Image
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
I've said publicly, and it's true, I've had a lot of wonderful things come my way. But personally, the greatest thing I… — Archie Manning Copy Share Image
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play,… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking,… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It amazes me that the new age of parenting gives children choices. When I was a child the choice I had was… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I was always told that I am petite and can get hurt easily. And I always felt the need to… — Nushrat Bharucha Copy Share Image
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
“(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“Who was it who said childhood was a thing that ruined everyone's life? Why was it, I wondered, that the human species… — Wendy Jean Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a… — Goldie Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
Bubbles are incredibly basic. We think of them in that way just because they're a kid's toy. But I think it's more… — Tom Noddy Copy Share Image
“You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except… — Joan Walton Collaso Copy Share Image
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
In 2009, I pushed for the creation and funding of early childhood block grants to ensure that more kids enter kindergarten ready… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
When my friends talk about childhood, I've never heard of any cartoons or TV they remember. The only thing we share is… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at… — John Updike Copy Share Image
