Edmund White
Related I have a little pussy,/ And her coat is silver-gray;/ She lives in a great wide meadow/ And she neve... STORIES OF CHILDHOOD JOHNNY DEPP GERALD DURRELL CHRISTINA AGUILERA FRANK MCCOURT I love my daughter very much. And she did have a terrible childhood - because it felt that way to he... LINDA CARROLL JOHN CORNFORTH STEPHENIE MEYER Childhood occupies the biggest part of your brain, so a lot of my memories subconsciously (and consc... MICHEL GONDRY African-Americans know I spent part of my childhood in public housing, I am a natural heir of the Re... KEN BLACKWELL OPRAH WINFREY When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood. GEORG TRAKL GEORGE TAKEI I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I u... PATTY DUKE NANCY MARCHAND When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he wil... JONICE WEBB THALIA We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of ... DIANE FLYNN KEITH Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can... RAIN PHOENIX It's something that was a part of my growing up and my childhood, ... I loved the hall. TAMMY WYNETTE AMY TAN MAURICE SENDAK CESARE PAVESE STEPHEN KING I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a ... SIBEL KEKILLI I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushi... SHAWN LEVY MAURICE SENDAK TOBA BETA ALFIE ALLEN EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY GILLIAN FLYNN MICKEY ROURKE ASPEN MATIS MEHMET MURAT ILDAN THOMM QUACKENBUSH STEPHEN KING My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of... GRANT GUSTIN BRUCE BERESFORD This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a... WERLEY NORTREUS MEGAN FOX AMY TAN What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood. DEBORAH DAVIS No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since... DANTE HALL ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO Our review clearly showed that the prevention of both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer needs to... MANDEEP KAUR My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought a... GARY PAULSEN DWIGHT D EISENHOWER DOROTHY PARKER So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps i... TIM VINE I didn't really get a normal childhood. EVAN RACHEL WOOD In the root and stem of your own psyche, there is an accumulation of bad habits. If you cannot see t... YUANSOU LUCY LARCOM My dad was born in Haiti, and my mom was born in Tunisia. She is the daughter of a white French woma... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT BILL WATTERSON I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways. WIL WHEATON W. E. B. DU BOIS In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my c... ANN TURNER We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best ch... LENORE SKENAZY MICHAEL JACKSON JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE JOHANN VON GOETHE KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON ORSON SCOTT CARD DEBORAH TANNEN MARA WILSON ANDREW WILES EMMA TENNANT John Lennon and Paul McCartney 's childhood homes were preserved because they spent a significant pa... FLO CLUCAS ANDREW WILES You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre... P. L. TRAVERS Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it. SIMON PEGG Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside. RACHEL BOSTON DANIEL CRAIG In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN ANNE LAMOTT I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to ... DAVID QUAMMEN The chain of cultural memory has broken down. I get kids in my class whose mothers and fathers didn'... GREG FORTE EUGENE IONESCO I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; t... DAMIAN MARLEY S. E. HINTON DEEPIKA PADUKONE DENNIS MILLER EMILIA FOX Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panic... MICHAEL IAN BLACK CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only... WILLIAM JOYCE AMIE KAUFMAN If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change... PHIL ROBERTSON Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life -... TIM O'BRIEN If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER TOM STOPPARD RIDLEY SCOTT Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I foun... RASHID JOHNSON DEBORAH TANNEN R. KELLY JOSH HOMME I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massi... EDWARD CAREY ROBERTO BENIGNI
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I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with peopl... 
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gif... 
I felt caged by my childhood. 
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable chil... 
Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale. 
I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might... 
She leaves us all a better America than the America of her childhood. 
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration c... 
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting scho... 
I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood. 
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a... 
I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy child... 
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our ad... 
The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. 
You see yourself as if old and wise.
I have no complaints about my childhood. 
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away... 
I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the othe... 
I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when ... 
The freedom of the woods lingered in me here; I felt lighter. I hoped to be changed by it, allow thi... 
Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy t... 
Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part... 
The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. At 
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenl... 
I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood. 
Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about chil... 
I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we di... 
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si... 
It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest... 
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. 
I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community. 
All of us are products of our childhood. 
Life is the childhood of our immortality. 
Life is the childhood of our immortality. 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the s... 
In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your par... 
I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, a... 
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream... 
I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in He... 
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. 
I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life. 
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been... 
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the d... 
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken i... 
Comfort is of great importance to me. I really want to encourage girls to dress in whatever they fee... 
It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet no... 
I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad ch... 
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the... 
The girl looks out the window, watching the gentle, familiar blue sky fade into darkness. The stars ... 
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. 
I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 sc... 
A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like... 
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot... 
Get these people drunk. I don't know if you're aware of this, but we're horrible acoustic. We're goi... 
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... 
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe... 
I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West... 
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C... 
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. 
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. 
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo... 
Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this ... 
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. 
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. 
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useles... 
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the pe... 
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for ... 
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We... 
Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past ... 
But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. 
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. 
Give us enough but with a sparing hand. 
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received ... 
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin. 
I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing... 
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging outpu... 
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constituti... 
Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make u... 
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research... 
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reali...