You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
P. L. Travers
ChildrenChildhoodMaturityBookYou
I had a very happy childhood.
Juan Antonio Bayona
ChildhoodHappyHappy ChildhoodVery
As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.
Lionel Shriver
ChildrenChildhoodDressChildTruck
Honestly, the America of my childhood I'm not convinced is available anymore to my own children, and that is a significant motivation to want to go out and do something better for them and rest of my neighbors in Colorado.
George Brauchler
ChildrenChildhoodRestBetterWant
From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.
Stephen LaBerge
TruthChildhoodWorldInteresting
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
Alice Waters
LoveChildhoodRememberSummerCorn
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.
Charles J. Shields
ExperienceChildhoodManPainWar
Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads may not change enough diapers, but their government offers paid maternity leave; practically free preschool; and per-baby payments equivalent to eight months of an average salary.
Pamela Druckerman
ChangeChildhoodGovernmentFree
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
Jason Reitman
FamilyRelationshipChildhoodYouth
UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours east of San Francisco and not far from where I spent most of my childhood. It's a part of California that has suffered deeply from the recession with high unemployment and a skyrocketing home foreclosure rate.
Lester Holt
HomeChildhoodFarmCaliforniaHigh
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.
Isabel Allende
FearSadChildhoodAngryHappyYou
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
Sophie Hannah
ChildhoodPoetryMeConnectionWrote
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
Alison Gopnik
ChildhoodLongHumanHuman Beings
My dad was born in Haiti, and my mom was born in Tunisia. She is the daughter of a white French woman and a black, half-Guadeloupian, half-American man. My mom traveled the world a lot. She went through Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. She just got to experience a lot of different cultures, and that came through my childhood.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
DaughterExperienceChildhoodWoman
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.
Orlando Bloom
FatherMotherChildhoodSisterKind
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.
Jared Padalecki
ChildhoodMoviesWatchingUpFiction
I had a very messianic childhood.
Leonard Cohen
ChildhoodVeryHad
When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.
Itzhak Perlman
ChildhoodYouGoWayEverything
Acting is my passion since childhood, and I am happy to be in Tinsel Town at a very young age.
Sridevi
PassionAgeChildhoodI AmHappy
For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity.
Wyatt Cenac
ChildhoodMeCuriosityThinkI Think
My whole childhood was church. But as an adult, I've grown to understand my relationship with God versus how I sing. People in church are like, 'You sing the devil's music,' but I believe in balance. I can't just party with you. I got to help you, too.
BJ the Chicago Kid
MusicGodRelationshipChildhood
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
Olivia Wilde
ChildhoodAmericaBackIrishGoing
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
Jonathan Coe
ChildhoodHappyPeopleUnluckyWho
I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.
Kristin Kreuk
ExperienceChildhoodParentsPlay
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