Famous Quotes & Sayings

Actually, the show gets very poignant at one point when she talks about her childhood.

The song is about my image of a place that has cropped up in my heart since my childhood, even though I have never been there.

William Butler Yeats

The things that have been told us in our childhoodAre not so fragile.

Billy Wagner

I've matured a lot. You can only stay mad so long. I think (his childhood) helped me to see how not to do it the right way and to try to do it better when I get a chance.

The story gives us back that which many of us have lost within ourselves -- our childhood innocence.

Bernie Sanders

We`re not going to let the United States continue to have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized world in - at a time when we`re seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires.

Bernie Sanders

Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

Miranda July

The worst thing to me is the limited vocabulary of childhood sexuality. Parents, more than anyone, know their kids are sexual.

George Saintsbury

The works of the very beautifully named Regina Maria Roche should probably be read, as they were for generations, in late childhood or early youth.

Jodie Foster

You have to make a big effort to try to have a life, and that's important to you only if you spent your entire childhood not having one,

Tim Kaine

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

I've been fishing all my life and I hate to see that pulled out from under me. They're stabbing me in the back, taking away my childhood dream.

Mike Johanns

We are very concerned with the level of childhood obesity, ... We don't want this generation of young people to live fewer years than their parents.

The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.

Talking about your childhood and how your parents handled money says a lot about you.

I want to see Miss Jackson go to jail for life. You took my childhood, a childhood I was supposed to have. I was so disappointed I will never get that back.

It provides tax relief ... from the childhood years to the education years, from the savings years to the retirement years,

Ben Kingsley

It's very difficult to be objective about one's childhood because you have no perspective on it. I have nothing to compare it with. The only way I can lead any kind of a comparative life is to portray other men.

May-Britt Moser

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

Carlo Collodi

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

James Hillman

I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.

James Hillman

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

Kim Edwards

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.

Evan Rachel Wood

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

Eva Figes

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

Jeremy Piven

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

Harold Budd

My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

Jim Butcher

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

Jean Baudrillard

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Cassandra Clare

It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

Mindy Kaling

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

Mika

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

Jack London

All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.