Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Aristophanes

The old are in a second childhood.

Corey Feldman

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

Alice Miller

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.

Alice Miller

I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.

Alice Hoffman

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Alice Hoffman

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

Caroline Lawrence

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Aubrey McClendon

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

James Wan

I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.

Ben Fountain

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

Candy Crowley

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

Carol Alt

Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!

Charles Kennedy

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Deepak Chopra

To love a person is to love their universe.

Anthony de Mello

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

Chrissy Teigen

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Felix Baumgartner

I'm more a competitive person.

Jhene Aiko

I just like being a regular person.

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.