I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I don't remember my childhood very well at all, but my earliest memory is holding a man's hand as I was walking… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
“From childbirth to our deathbeds, we seek to impose our will upon the external environment. At each milepost in life, we seek… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from,… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The story of Black Lives Matter starts before Black Lives Matter. The story of Black Lives Matter, for me, starts with my… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Back when I was a kid, I used to tear pages out of magazines and stick them on my bedroom wall -… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
“To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
My first book was signed up when I was 13, and I've been writing ever since. But penning the 'Halo' series has… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The Clintons are obsessed with money, and they have been since they came on the national scene. I'm sure that both of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As Korn go on, it's the same things - bad childhoods and mean moms. It gets too old after a while. How… — Chino Moreno Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along,… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
Christmas has always been very special to all of us and we used to look forward to the Christmas holidays. Those were… — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It's strange, because I remember the biggest point of my childhood was one Halloween when I was trick or treating and ended… — Brian Austin Green Copy Share Image
Waffle House is my childhood thing. We used to go there on Sundays or weekends every now and then with my family.… — Khris Middleton Copy Share Image
The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've… — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always felt a bit like I didn't quite fit in, a feeling that perhaps still lingers… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time… — May-Britt Moser Copy Share Image
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work"… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him,… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image