It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese. — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted. — James Carville Copy Share Image
A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow. — Mary Cholmondeley Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood. My dad would put me inside a tire and then roll me down a hill. They were… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I had good parents. Two older brothers, bit of a handful between us, all got ginger hair, a bit fiery. I remember… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
I feel really lucky because I discovered acting when I was really young, I was like nine and I think I had… — Natalia Reyes Copy Share Image
I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood. — Martin Compston Copy Share Image
My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved. — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
“They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know… — Adam Baker 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
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“We, however, have all kinds of different ideas about what happiness is. Some must go bungee jumping to experience a rush of… — Haim Shapira Copy Share Image
“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sorrows, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A few minutes after they left, Harold bought the blanket from his bed, surrounded himself with his stuffed-toy animals, and built a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“I’d like to see some identification,” growled the inspector. I fully expected Barrons to toss O’Duffy from the shop on his ear.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
