I grew up being that kid backstage doing my math homework and my father made sure I knew from everybody in the… — Jasmine Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
“On differing perspectives: "At birth, we're yanked from a warm, safe place and thrust into a world we have no way of… — Rick Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Those who write for children, or at least those who write best for children, are not child-like or immature, but they do… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a bucolic kind of upbringing, and so I certainly bring an amalgamation of different people that I've… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Small, inquisitive and solitary, the only child of an only son, growing up in rented lodgings or hotel rooms, constantly on the… — Hilary Spurling Copy Share Image
“Strangely enough, when you get older the things you didn't understand when you were a child start to make sense. "When this… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, unexpectedly, someone is using the ugly powers of war, which horrify me, to try to pull and drag me away from… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I talk and think like a kid but now as I'm geting stronger and older sometime I… — Steven Hmangte Copy Share Image
I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
As an actress you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
“Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached… — King Krule Copy Share Image
The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Other cultures make a clear delineation between childhood and adulthood; there are rites of passages and initiation ceremonies to mark these transitions.… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
“But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near… — Timothy Victor Richardson Copy Share Image
Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton said that her childhood dream was to be an Olympic athlete. But she was not athletic enough. She said she… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Although telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't.… — Genesis Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone… — Erich Kastner Copy Share Image
