my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would… — Tove Ditlevsen Copy Share Image
I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids,… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Childhood disappears down a storm drain. It flows, then trickles, then vanishes, leaving some olfactory memory—of new tennis balls, Sunday-morning bacon, a… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want… — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood,… — Frank Leslie Copy Share Image
My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turnt darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie.… — Brittany Curran Copy Share Image
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin'… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
I didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my… — William Klein Copy Share Image
“No" — I could never be another person’s father, fate, god, "No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
For me inspiration is pretty much life. The life around you and everything that happens, the people you meet, where you go,… — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
“There was a girl who came up to me on the street the other day, she bloomed out of the pavement... and… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I… — Dante Hall Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
