I didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my… — William Klein Copy Share Image
“No" — I could never be another person’s father, fate, god, "No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
For me inspiration is pretty much life. The life around you and everything that happens, the people you meet, where you go,… — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
I really spent most of my childhood in my bedroom watching Barbra Streisand movies and musicals and making videos. That was kind… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter. I've moved on from something that was never there to begin with. That's one of the dire things about… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In terms of my childhood, it was normal. You go through school, do well in school, and then I went to university.… — Manny Jacinto Copy Share Image
“Over the years our mother has beaten us with belts, shoes, rulers, extension cords, hair brushes, a wooden spoon, a fly swatter,… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow… — C JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was,… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities… — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Jung’s gift for transcending the confines of his own consciousness began, as we have seen, in the fantasy games of his childhood.” — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
“They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Childhood trauma is childhood trauma, whether you're a player or a forklift driver. They are the same feelings, and there are the… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
In his 70s, when I was in my 40s, my father still read me the stories he wrote about his childhood. His… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I have been hooked to cinema since childhood. I am like a typical Indian villager who had no other source of entertainment… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
My mom makes this amazing little snack that, to this day, I still think about. It's pita bread wrapped with melted butter,… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If you need to talk about your childhood, you’re safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I’m… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences,… — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
![“Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir; et, ce qui ne nous arrive guere, ils jouissent du present.]” quote by Jean de la Bruyere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/672/jean-de-la-bruyere-575_childhood_children-have-neither-past-nor-future-an_942458.jpg)
