Childhood Quote by Anita Desai

I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow…

— Leigh Newman

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the…

— Marianne Williamson

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

— Michael Meade

With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more than a…

— Jonny Bairstow

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery…

— Alice Meynell

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I…

— Drew Barrymore

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest…

— Suzanne Weyn

“Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold…

— Sydney J. Harris

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and…

— Corey Feldman

Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I…

— Frederick Lenz

I made a pact with myself when I was younger that if were to ever grow up to be someone, I would be someone…

— Hannah Teter