I had no childhood, really, so I imagined more than played, and that definitely led to my showbusiness image, the theatrics and… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth,… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it's also the… — Derrick Lewis Copy Share Image
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there… — Nancy Marchand Copy Share Image
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious. I knew the… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My little sisters password for the Disney website is 'MickeyMinnieGoofyPluto' I asked her why...she said 'They told me to use 4 characters.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so… — Andy Dick Copy Share Image
Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages of early childhood. Learning to walk, learning… — Jake Arrieta Copy Share Image
Here's something a little more personal: In my teens, I was having a hard time and ended up in a therapy group… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
'Goosebumps,' actually, was a very big part of my childhood, growing up, and it inspired me to get into horror and all… — Dylan Minnette Copy Share Image
The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I’d been raised to be practical and keep my emotions in check, but I loved cars. That was one of the few… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he… — Flip Wilson Copy Share Image
Lots of people can identify with a fear of abandonment because of childhood stuff. They say you're either afraid of abandonment or… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
