That's basically what my parents taught me throughout my childhood, being intense and consistent. In my opinion, those are the hardest things… — Evan Fournier Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I had a hard childhood because my mom always made sure we was Gucci, you know what I mean.… — Young M.A Copy Share Image
“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects.… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Winnie the Pooh was such a part of my childhood. My kindergarten was named Pooh Corner, after one of A.A. Milne's collections… — Alex Lawther Copy Share Image
I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were… — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Like many nerdy youngsters I spent much of my childhood listening to Monty Python records, learning them verbatim, fittingly parroting them. — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I didn't know what childhood or freedom was. I badly wanted to feel and taste freedom. Even… — Urfi Javed Copy Share Image
I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other… — Shelley Fabares Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity. — Camila Mendes Copy Share Image
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
It's sad to think that your childhood is coming to an end, and there's nothing you can do to relive it. You're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Throughout my entire miserable childhood I woke at least once a night weeping from overwhelming delight. I did it hungry, I did… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
Still being friends with a childhood friend means one thing: they remember things about you, you don't even remember about yourself. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I had good parents. Two older brothers, bit of a handful between us, all got ginger hair, a bit fiery. I remember… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them.… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Childhood was definitely my most formative time in terms of my creative self. My adolescence was very much the dark years. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
![“The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything [that] a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. That God must either be turned into a symbol for…” quote by Daniel Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ec/daniel-dennett-3895_abandoned_the-kindly-god-who-lovingly-fashioned-ea_2710685.jpg)
