You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I needed a tough dad. I grew up with a poor single mom in a very bad neighborhood. I was scared my… — Tony Hinchcliffe Copy Share Image
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I was always seeking truth from childhood. And I identified truth with many things, with science, with politics, with art, and I… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
“I think life is a lot different for alternative kids nowadays. Texting and the internet mean that being a Goth or something… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
For all adults who haven't had a very rosy childhood, the first thing they will tell you is that they want to… — Samantha Akkineni Copy Share Image
My childhood was extremely unhappy. That's not to say that my parents didn't love me. But it was traumatic, and of course,… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on,… — Jake Busey Copy Share Image
They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of childhood building toys is that they snap together in one way or another. Technology is constantly shifting,… — Cathy Engelbert Copy Share Image
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it… — Dwayne Hickman Copy Share Image
I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I grew up watching Transformers. I think it was one of the first cartoons that I started watching as a kid. It… — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
My mom and dad were 'helicopter parents,' literally. Meaning, I didn't have a nanny, so I went up in the helicopter. My… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
The movies that stuck with me were from childhood: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Judy Garland in 'Easter Parade,' 'Singin' in the… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped,… — Grant Gustin Copy Share Image
Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents,… — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
For a long time, it was all about chart position. 'If my record doesn't come in at No. 1, I'm a failure.'… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
I am the kind of guy who you'll always see smiling. My childhood was like this. I had a lot of fun.… — Fred Copy Share Image
“They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image