“If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Both of my parents were judo fighters from the national team. So I've always been around fighters my whole childhood. — Evan Fournier Copy Share Image
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ” — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.” — Carl Barât Copy Share Image
Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid. — Clara Bow Copy Share Image
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Compared to boxing, acting is more difficult. I have learnt martial arts and boxing since childhood. So, they were easier. — Ritika Singh Copy Share Image
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“The damage that most people suffer, through the process we refer to as childhood, is from a lack of self-esteem. It’s by… — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
If you recall childhood, you may remember that the kids who stuck straws and cigarettes up their noses back then seemed funnier… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as… — Kuki Gallmann Copy Share Image
When Cristiano burst on to the scene here in Manchester, he spent a good chunk of his early career here and enjoyed… — Bruno Fernandes Copy Share Image
I'm surprised by how much I remember [on childhood on film]. I think it's just because I had these interesting moments. Of… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor"… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also loved that… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“My childhood was one of both poverty and plenty, suffering and joy. I was taken out of poverty, both financial and emotional,… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“The qualities that make for excellence in children's literature can be summed up in a single word: imagination. And imagination as it… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image