“They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood,… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from… — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Like most kids, I learnt to ride a bike by falling off and getting back on again. I was 6 and not… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
“Her own dolls were either babies or storybook characters like Cinderella and Snow White who though past childhood were somehow not yet… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could… — Craig Seymour Copy Share Image
“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with… — Vangelis Copy Share Image
“If a child grows up in an environment infested with predators, he or she would have a hard time building healthy relationships… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
The Spice Girls and Fran Drescher were such important parts of my childhood. There was something about them that allowed me to… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with.… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts,… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Most of my good friends are my friends from high school or childhood, and they're not actors - they have 9-to-5 jobs.… — Emily Meade Copy Share Image
I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really… — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been acting forever, and wardrobe changes the way… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
“How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like. — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it,… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“Today in an auditorium full of parents my son scanned the room looking for me. When he saw me his face lit… — Rachel Marie Martin Copy Share Image
“For every day under the sun, he slowly began to live life like he felt the branches in his heart with its… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time.… — Devin Ratray Copy Share Image
