A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect… — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
“Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We had a ranch, growing up, that we used to spend a lot of time at. I guess anything from the ranch… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow,… — Samuel Woodworth Copy Share Image
I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Remember when getting high meant swinging on the playground? When protection meant a helmet? When the worst thing you could get from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved… — Rainey Qualley Copy Share Image
I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
“I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living*… — Kate McCafferty Copy Share Image
I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit… — Leo McCarey Copy Share Image
I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the… — Luisa Weiss Copy Share Image
My mom means everything to me. She has been such an inspiration in terms of just leading by example. Growing up, I… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
I trained my whole life for the Olympics. I didn't have a childhood, I really couldn't go to the beach with my… — Claressa Shields Copy Share Image
My ultimate, ultimate go-to is 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.' I grew up on that. I feel like it's an anthem for… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I was surprised and laugh when I found my childhood written poems, one line was I like saving cash coins or money,… — Mhaj Porras Copy Share Image
Then followed that beautiful season... Summer… Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
My childhood hero was David Attenborough. He opened my eyes to the wonder of the natural world. In fact, he's still my… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The story of my life could be told in a series of waffle snapshots. I spent childhood weekends watching the lid of… — Chris Morocco Copy Share Image
The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image