“In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of focus; when I think… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A… — Raffaella Barker Copy Share Image
I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Money is rarely just money. Sometimes it stands in for love or self-esteem or freedom or a sense of control over your… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
“That night, Gregory dreamt of his mother. It was a dream that he'd have carried to his therapist like a raw, precious… — Marcus Speh Copy Share Image
When Nancy Reagan was presented with people who she really felt like weren't going to judge her, there was such a floodgate… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
My childhood ambition was to become a Tooth Fairy. And I do talk about that in my book 'Is You Okay.' My… — GloZell Copy Share Image
I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
I like to adapt some of the traditional dishes from my childhood from both NZ and Samoa using British ingredients and European… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I came home and I got the self-tapes through for 'Beach Rats,' and I did that in my childhood bedroom. And that… — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Even though I wish I had a better childhood, I wouldn't trade it, because it made me who I am today. I… — Ariel Winter Copy Share Image
I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
“And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it… — Attia Hosain Copy Share Image
Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led… — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I think the 'Wide Awake Club' and 'Wacaday' are fondly remembered because not only were they a part of people's childhood, there… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that,… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
Comics who grew up surviving their childhood by being able to be the first one to make the joke about their weight… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
