Investments, for example, in early childhood and in our children return enormous dividends in terms of their own academic success, reduced cost… — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
Throughout my childhood, I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
Everyone has material about cats, and everyone has material about family and what they think about their government or childhood. — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The people and places that cause terror in childhood cause attraction in adulthood. We end up being repetitively attracted to the same… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed,… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Much of my inspiration definitely comes from the human experience. I'm really inspired by love like a lot of people are. My… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated.… — Lisa Fugard Copy Share Image
I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“My mom loved me no matter what I did. [...] When I really screwed up, she'd tell me that she loved me… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over… So one can be grown up at seven. Then,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child… — Ines de La Fressange Copy Share Image
Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore,… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
“In one way, it feels like six lifetimes, and yet I clearly recall my days of running along the beach of the… — Lin Wilder Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He started to wonder if maybe they had been raptured while he was in school. He always worried the Lord would show… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
Twentysomethings thank me for their childhood... SpongeBob lives at the bottom of the sea, but he brings a lot of great stuff… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
“What she most wanted was to blend in with her background by changing color and shape, to remain inconspicuous and not easily… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I was in the Carlisle schoolboy scheme and while I was excited to join at first, I look back… — Glenn Murray Copy Share Image
I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did;… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are - you feel me? I've had style since… — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian Nights. Why were we so interested when it happened somewhere in Arabia,… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an… — Grimes Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
I'm very close to my parents. I admire them and respect them enormously. But my childhood unfortunately coincided with the end of… — Jackie French Copy Share Image