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
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 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
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you. — Agatha Christie 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
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood… — Bruce Robinson 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
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
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
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
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
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth.… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing… — Natalie Babbitt 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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