Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I was pretty young when my folks were playing those kinds of records, '70s rock and psychedelic stuff. So I just remember… — Borns Copy Share Image
I enjoyed playing everywhere, especially my mother's garden and my neighbor's. I loved my kindergarten. We sang songs; we played everywhere and… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I see my parents as tiny children who need love. I have compassion for my parents’ childhoods. I now know that I… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept.… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul?… — Yul Vazquez Copy Share Image
Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The biggest and most important part of our childhood was making movies. Our whole drive in life was to do this for… — Ross Duffer Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar -… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I never wanted to do anything else but create music. From my first piano to setting up my studio,… — Anirudh Ravichander Copy Share Image
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
I watched a lot of American TV, all those repeats of 'Star Trek,' 'Fantasy Island,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'Lost in Space.' All that stuff… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In childhood period we always wanted to grow fast but now while we are big, we realize that broken pencils and incomplete… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version… — Seth Copy Share Image
The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
During my childhood, I played just about every sport imaginable, which became less feasible at Juilliard... Although I remember our annual dodge-ball… — Seth Numrich Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how many years go by, how grown-up we think we are, how much we presume we have changed or… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image