We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I remember arguing with my dad to let me dress up to go to a Halloween party in seventh grade, but I… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth,… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I had no childhood, really, so I imagined more than played, and that definitely led to my showbusiness image, the theatrics and… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than… — Charlette Mikulka Copy Share Image
“She said, "Daddy thinks that all the world's magic is almost evolved out." I thought of Roebuck Lake, its swamps and sloughs… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable,… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music -… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
Basic human core is good and remains part of divine nature until childhood. It is only later that it is taken over… — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I feel really lucky because I discovered acting when I was really young, I was like nine and I think I had… — Natalia Reyes Copy Share Image
“That's because we have it so good", I told her, trying on his deep voice. We impersonated him all the way home,… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Among the most valuable but least appreciated experiences parenthood can provide are the opportunities it offers for exploring, reliving, and resolving one's… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act -… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution… — Peter Shepherd Copy Share Image
“That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
