We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood. — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
Because I didn't get a lot of encouragement in my childhood doesn't mean I have to be a failure now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It's… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There's something really special about childhood. When you're a kid, you're at your most creative, and you're very plugged into your imagination… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
