Century Quote by Ray Bradbury

Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and…

— Marshall McLuhan

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

— Daniel Craig

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

— Donald Johanson

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

— Jeremy Irons

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course…

— Victor Hugo

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

“I had not until then fully realized that I was odd, that there was anything strange about growing up with a single-parent genius. I…

— Spider Robinson

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year…

— Naomi Alderman

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can…

— Emma Donoghue

“You also educate people thoroughly. From the moment they are born, you constantly remind them of the principles of the imagined order, which are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain…

— Brian Ferneyhough