Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
“This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“And when adulthood fails you, you can still summon the memory of the black swan on the pond of your childhood, the… — Barbara Ras Copy Share Image
Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I loved my childhood, sometimes I wish I could go back to it - not a care in the world! Actually, that's… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
“You see, we were able to give you something, something which even now no one will ever take from you, and we… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
“You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I… — Tim Hudson Copy Share Image
“We seemed to share certain ideas about what happens in childhood, when you have to place yourself under the sign of your… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child--I am… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“THIS BOOK is about the reproduction of social advantage and disadvantage across generations in the experience of typical Baltimore youth, anchored in… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“Mum bought me �kite for my sixth birthday. It was beautiful. Snowy white with � long tail of ribbons. She held the… — Katie Dale Copy Share Image
I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
“You know how some people were absolutely never children, but just came from a catalog fully grown, while other people you don’t… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Growing up in a home where children continually witness abuse and violence will leave them living every day feeling anxious and depressed,… — Shelia Johnson Copy Share Image
I’m telling you right now I could make him pop an aneurysm and no one would know. (Nero) Doesn’t that kind of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school.… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood,… — Otto Robert Frisch Copy Share Image
“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A few minutes after they left, Harold bought the blanket from his bed, surrounded himself with his stuffed-toy animals, and built a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I was very weak in my childhood, and arthritis took a toll on me. But my parents did everything in their might… — Sangram Singh Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad's massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
