A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over… So one can be grown up at seven. Then,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated.… — Lisa Fugard Copy Share Image
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I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always different in that I liked being by myself. Even in kindergarten, when we were told to line up and… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, by one means or another, tries to open it. The… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Lil Wayne, I ain't mad at him man, he did his thing, he stepped up his lyrical game, he the most improved… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what actually caused me to run for office is, you know, my family story, the experience of growing up in a… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
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You never know how things are going to fit. So, you don't count your eggs until they hatch. You can't pre-project that.… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When I decided to make 'Blackface,' a short film about Black Pete, I had little knowledge of the giant cesspool of hate… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable,… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
A rainbow every morning who would pause to look at? The wonderful which comes often or is plentifully about us is soon… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
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Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
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My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
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A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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