Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure people brought the honey of… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Obviously it was my childhood dream to be a musical theatre composer and lyricist, but not all dreams come true, and I… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood.… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
“To Alef, the letter that begins the alphabets of both Arabic and Hebrew- two Semitic languages, sisters for centuries. May we find… — Ibtisam Barakat Copy Share Image
You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it… — Rene Denfeld Copy Share Image
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“I love the stillness of the wood; I love the music of the rill: I love the couch in pensive mood Upon… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts, taken one… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there,… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood -… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into… — Constance Fenimore Woolson Copy Share Image
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“even the slightest stir in the broad grammar of existence—a moment asking only to be noticed—was enough to rekindle that astonished brightness,… — Neena H. Brar Copy Share Image
Like any parent, they've been extremely supportive of my racing throughout my childhood. I mean, my mom says that she didn't want… — Kyle Larson Copy Share Image
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Women's childhood relationships with their fathers are important to them all their lives. Regardless of age or status, women who seem clearest… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
“Computers deliver an abundance of symbols yet offer an impoverishment of experience. Do our children need to see more icons, corporate logos,… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“Childhood is a time for pretending and trying on maturity to see if it fits or hangs baggy, tastes good or bitter,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Clint repined for his childhood when Lucy would help him get into his pajamas and then tuck him into bed with a… — William T. Prince Copy Share Image
It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“Humans never outgrow their need to connect with others, nor should they, but mature, truly individual people are not controlled by these… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image