I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
“Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .” — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood. — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
Since my childhood, I had a great liking for Karunanidhi and admired his writing skills. — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
“No one emerges from a troubled childhood without the battle scars to prove it. It is amazing that we fare as well… — James P. Krehbiel Copy Share Image
I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie. — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban. — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I found my childhood scrapbook and there's an interview in there with dad from 1970. He talks about how long he's been… — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“The other trait particularly influenced by upbringing is appreciation. The twin and adoption studies show that “parents have a noticeable effect on… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Until feminists started wailing about the female's passivity, submissiveness, and something called 'victim status,' I had no idea women were such doormats.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Arthur talked about his childhood. As a boy he was delicate and had never been sent to school. An only son,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful. — Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark Copy Share Image
