Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It… — Traci Lords Copy Share Image
I was a 'Star Wars' fanatic growing up. I guess I still am. Pretty much for everybody who grew up in the… — Colin O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood…….… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
“Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own share of troubles, so… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
“The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite. — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in… — Bret McKenzie Copy Share Image
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest… — Jared Isaacman Copy Share Image
“Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about the Wiggles, and how they started, was they had that great background of early childhood development and that's… — Emma Watkins Copy Share Image
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary… — Lee Grant Copy Share Image
