If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely… — John Grant Copy Share Image
You have a set of skills, a way of looking at the world, and often in childhood it was revealed to you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood,… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
I definitely have, on paper, an unorthodox career path. And from childhood onward, I was always fascinated by the outdoors and wildlife. — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
My childhood ambition was to become a Tooth Fairy. And I do talk about that in my book 'Is You Okay.' My… — GloZell Copy Share Image
I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I could just be a little kid again. So when life gets tough you can just play pretend. I… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
“I think that every one , no matter how many troubles the may have when he grows up, ought to have a… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or… — Justin Torres 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
“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
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
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
We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I actually grew up around the corner from where Harold Pinter did. If you want a snapshot of my childhood, me and… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood trying to express myself, and I was not very good at it. In my town, most kids would… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We remember our childhood and would cry until tomorrow / today on the delicate shoulders burden of heavy school bags and aspirations… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
My mother raised us out of the limelight and told us not to say we were Bruce Lee's children, so I had… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
My dad wants me to grow up, to start wearing makeup and caring about clothes. I know I should want to, I… — Leila 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
