“Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for… — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
I will never outgrow hopping on the back of a shopping cart and riding it downhill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you). — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
I miss being a child, the biggest conflict was always picking which crayon to use. — Ali Schlachter Copy Share Image
“If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.” — Cassandra Clare 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor"… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also loved that… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“My childhood was one of both poverty and plenty, suffering and joy. I was taken out of poverty, both financial and emotional,… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“The qualities that make for excellence in children's literature can be summed up in a single word: imagination. And imagination as it… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“ Boy and Egg Every few minutes, he wants to march the trail of flattened rye grass back to the house of… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
My whole childhood when I was growing up, Michael Jackson was my husband. My cousins had Jackie Jackson and my sister had… — Siedah Garrett Copy Share Image