At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
I need a Girl That will love me for who I am. I need one that will treat me with respect. and… — Armin Ferizovic Copy Share Image
“... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
I had a normal childhood where I was able to cultivate my own creativity, and I don't think I would have been… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
“I spent half my childhood in the shadows. Hiding from my father or my brother. Creeping from a place of solitude to… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“A gyermekkor természetes igénye: szabadság. S a mai gyermeket szinte ketrecbe kényszerítik. A felnőttkor természetes igénye: élet. S a mai felnőtt, vagy… — Sándor Weöres Copy Share Image
The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the… — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Dave Cockrum's work at Marvel and DC defined my childhood and inspired me to be a comic book creator. Without Dave, there… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that… — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
People can't change the equation between me and Hrithik. We ate friends since childhood and we have immense respect for each other. — Zayed Khan Copy Share Image
“Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
“And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven… — R. K. Laxman Copy Share Image
The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're… — Mike Lookinland Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself… — Brad Marchand Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
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 don't particularly like to go see 3D movies, but when I'm doing it I kind of do enjoy it. I enjoy… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there...… — Rula Jebreal 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
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
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
“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
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 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
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