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.

Max Muller

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Michael Gruber

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Patricia Crawford

She was a legend in her time. The issue of childhood obesity seems so current now, but imagine what it was like in the 1960s when she sought funding for such studies. She had foresight into a growing problem.

Jesse Metcalfe

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

Jennifer Lee

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

James A. Baldwin

I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read . The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy , and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.

Brian Wilson

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Drew Goddard

It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

Douglas Coupland

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Desmond Tutu

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Clay Aiken

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

John Owen

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

Namie Amuro

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Michael Caine

I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

Lorna Luft

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Randy Weber

I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.

Dana Plato

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Rice

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Andy Samberg

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

Anne Frank

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Thom Gunn

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Susan Lucci

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true