Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that… — Moon Jae-in Copy Share Image
Like most kids born in China back in the 1980s, I didn't have any siblings. I spent my childhood in Chengdu and… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My mother was an alcoholic, in and out of hospital my entire childhood. My father, a doctor, divorced her when I was… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful childhood in Antigua growing up in a family with three other brothers and no sisters, so you can… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
Right from childhood, I have enjoyed films which belong to the thriller genre. As a kid, I would read novels written by… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
I'm not too sure why I don't like change. Well, I do, it's a lot to do with my childhood, but I… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
A lot of the work that I'm interested in taps into childhood, because it's just such a period where the imagination can… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Be kind to yourself and to others. Treat others the way you would want to be treated. I was told that every… — Nikki DeLoach Copy Share Image
Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language -… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside,… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
“Being responsible for someone’s childhood is a big deal. We not only create our own memories, but we create our child’s memories.” — Rachel Macy Stafford Copy Share Image
The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter… — Lilli Palmer Copy Share Image
A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
