One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food… — Noemie Lenoir Copy Share Image
Some of my best childhood memories are of watching Terrell Davis with my dad. I used to hang out when I was,… — Christian McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve… — Freddy Adu Copy Share Image
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Music was important in our childhood. It wasn't something that we had to do. My father's attitude was, 'If you want to… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going… — Jacqueline Cochran Copy Share Image
In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
“The mental Images were liquifying So I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
My curfew was the street lights, and my Mom didn't call my cell, she yelled time to come in. I played outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In childhood, she had had milk allergies, or so they’d thought. But either she’d never had them or had outgrown them or… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
“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
“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into… — Orson Scott Card 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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
“These pictures from the photo albums of my childhood are artifacts of a time when I was happy and whole. They are… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't… — Daniel Wolpert Copy Share Image
Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling… — Fantasia Barrino Copy Share Image
