I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life. — Rik Mayall Copy Share Image
I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere… — Lucy Davis Copy Share Image
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
We grew up in a nice house in a very middle-class area in Bolton and had a very happy childhood. My mum,… — Amir Khan Copy Share Image
Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group].… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that… — Terry Leahy 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
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Children should have the absolute right to a happy childhood and be able to grow up in an environment which fosters their… — John McG. McMaster Copy Share Image
I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the… — Stan Wawrinka Copy Share Image
I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If Id had a happy childhood I definitely wouldnt have become the person I am - although a bad childhood isnt a… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“I have heard it said that a happy childhood is a curse, because what follows can never measure up. All I can… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
“At forty-three, I bought my first house. I’d wanted one like crazy. A house meant family, a happy childhood for my litttle… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.Friends are the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
“That was the one moment he would always remember. The unhappiest moment of a happy childhood. The empty desolation of being on… — Jim Kelly Copy Share Image
“Some may see the tortured existence of the musician as one where he's practicing like hell and being alone, I see it… — Christian Tetzlaff 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
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