“Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“In the right frame of mind, to walk from one room in a house to another can be exploration of the highest… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
When I see a shoe, I deconstruct it in my head. It comes from spending childhood summers around my grandad's denim factory… — Tan France Copy Share Image
The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
I have the most wonderful childhood memories of holidays in the golden age before foreign package holidays were even a glint in… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
“Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?" He turned to look… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“When did your childhood end? How badly did you get hurt, when you did, when you were this little wee little hurtable… — Will Eno Copy Share Image
“[Uh-oh, it's bath time for Calvin.] MOM, who sits in the living room, has turned toward the door. Very likely she is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept.… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
I wish I was still that little girl..the one that the only kind of hurt was when I scraped my knees. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
My unforgettable childhood memory was when I got Bidaai.' I was in school when I got this show and I was in… — Sara Khan Copy Share Image
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart to think of childhood, everybody bigger and whacking and shouting and teaching you not to reach for anything… — Isabel Miller Copy Share Image
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“Was the feeling that all is right with the world, my world, because your were its foundations, formed in childhood and with… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
“Calvin, yelling: Mom, can I set fire to my bed mattress? Calvin's Mom: No, Calvin. Calvin: Can I ride my tricycle on… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars'… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm a big Batman fan; to be honest, to be a part of any superhero movie would really fulfill all of my… — Ray Park Copy Share Image
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I… — Statik Selektah Copy Share Image
“Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five… — Alvaro Siza Copy Share Image
You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world,… — Wyck Godfrey Copy Share Image
My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
In my childhood dreams, I pictured Italy as paradise. I longed to be the next Sophia Loren, living in a village with… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood… — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
My childhood was idyllic to begin with. We lived on a farm in Oxfordshire and my mum used its produce in the… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
“For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality.… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
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