Childhood Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

— William Lilly

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.

— Kim Harrison

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water…

— Jennifer Donnelly

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other…

— Bill Griffith

It was my grandmother who raised me and guided me.

— Coco Martin

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

— Gustav Mahler

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

— Denis Leary

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error…

— Michelangelo

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the…

— Rachel Cusk

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

— Lord Mountbatten