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
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
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
For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The Spice Girls and Fran Drescher were such important parts of my childhood. There was something about them that allowed me to… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
Mom would say, 'Get out of the house,' and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying… — Luke Hemsworth Copy Share Image
In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are,… — Joshua Henry Copy Share Image
I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with.… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts,… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Most of my good friends are my friends from high school or childhood, and they're not actors - they have 9-to-5 jobs.… — Emily Meade Copy Share Image
I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really… — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been acting forever, and wardrobe changes the way… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
“How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like. — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it,… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“Today in an auditorium full of parents my son scanned the room looking for me. When he saw me his face lit… — Rachel Marie Martin Copy Share Image
'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time.… — Devin Ratray Copy Share Image
“For every day under the sun, he slowly began to live life like he felt the branches in his heart with its… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That… — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So,… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first… — Bill Gates 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
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![“The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f00/bill-gates-137_advancing_the-scientific-understanding-of-some-of_1418044.jpg)
