Imagination Quote by Patricia Reilly Giff

When I was 11, I was terrified about the world.

— Emily Maitlis

As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that…

— Andrew Solomon

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we…

— Joseph Rotblat

My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the…

— Julianna Baggott

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and…

— Winston Churchill

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of…

— Hassan Blasim

When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting…

— Sophia Loren

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating…

— Sarah Silverman

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall,…

— Justin Cronin

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.

— Helmut Kohl

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was…

— Henry Rollins

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which…

— John Irving