Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikola Tesla

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Terry Teachout

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

Natalie Babbitt

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

Milla Jovovich

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Ellen Greene

There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough.

Karel Capek

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Roberto Benigni

I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.