I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for… — Chi Chi Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood… — Alan Ritchson Copy Share Image
Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Dhanush has been a fan of my father since his childhood. They share mutual respect for each other. Also, the fact that… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
“The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.” — Peter O. Gray Copy Share Image
I grew up a single kid and so my whole childhood was spent in my backyard dealing with imaginary circumstances and role… — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“At seventeen, I knew: my entire childhood had been just a prelude to this girl. I had never felt anything like it,… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north… — Alice Munro 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
“As I started my personal voyage to unpack the childhood that I repressed for so long, everything unexpectedly made sense as to… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Only a fool wants to go back to the land of childhood . . . Or perhaps it is the longing for the certainties of… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
I grew up on these long, drawn-out stories with four pay-per-views a year where things paid off. Everything was done for a… — Tommaso Ciampa Copy Share Image
When you get married and have your own family, it gives you the opportunity to look back on your own childhood I… — Jermaine Jenas Copy Share Image
I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food..… — Hank Snow Copy Share Image
“In the tapestry of childhood, what stands out is not the splashy, blow-out trips to Disneyland but the common threads that run… — Kim John Payne Copy Share Image
It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I… — David Coleman Copy Share Image
... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
During my childhood my family risked a lot financially. They put every single penny they could into my racing and also their… — Valtteri Bottas Copy Share Image
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just… — Gerry Boyle Copy Share Image
There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed… — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
During our childhood, my sister and I had no birthday parties. We would take a packet of sweets to school and distribute… — Sanjay Leela Bhansali Copy Share Image
I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
It helps you during more difficult phases too, when you think back and remember that you managed to achieve your greatest childhood… — Kai Havertz Copy Share Image
Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I joined a meetup group called Bay Area Parents for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which I had searched for, as I was going… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Childhood is all about innocence. Being constantly surrounded by cameras and shutterbugs, makes children lose that innocence. It's terrifying and worrying, to… — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image