The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
My siblings and I had a loving but very chaotic and muddled childhood, and as a result we have sought out lives… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
Rajini sir has always been a part of my life from childhood. And I entered into filmmaking because I was influenced by… — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment,… — Jean-Pascal Tricoire Copy Share Image
What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“One of my earliest childhood memories is getting birdshot picked out of my backside by my mother, Mary. My mother would say,… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Purple: my favourite colour, why? It was the colour of the flowers on my Nanna's dishes and I loved her tea cake;… — April S. Rolfe Copy Share Image
If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money;… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The importance of inclusive behavior was modeled for me early in life. I have many childhood memories of my mother - an… — Lynne Doughtie Copy Share Image
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country.… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so… — Shakira Copy Share Image
If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems,… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My childhood was a mix of ballet classes and debating society. I liked arguing. As a teenager, I wanted to be an… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz],… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image