I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up, — Lori Gottlieb 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
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
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
I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when… — Dave Barry 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
“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
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. — Agatha Christie 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 think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood… — Maurice Sendak 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
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery… — Carlos Baker 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 had a happy childhood in the suburbs of L.A. My parents instilled in us an appreciation of history, art and, most… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
“It was-this always seems to shock people all over again- a happy childhood. For the first few months I spent a lot… — Tana French 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
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
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
“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
“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
