Childhood
I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone’s imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. ‘Back to the Future’ fulfills all of those daydreams. It’s the perfect movie.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Change, Childhood, Different, Famous, Happen, Imagined, Machine, Meaningful, Movies, Spaceship, Time
I must have been 12 years old. I remember it was raining. We passed by the National Gallery, and that wonderful pink marble, in the rain it gets a very rich rose. I remember looking up and saying to my parents, ‘That’s the kind of job I would like to have some day.
Author: J. Carter BrownTopics: Childhood, Famous, Memories, National gallery, Parents, Past aspirations
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens. Superabundant existence wells in my heart.
Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTopics: Childhood, Heart, Living
Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Childhood, Famous, Fresh, Imagination
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Childhood, Fall, Famous, Magical, Wake Up, World
When I was a little kid, I simply loved music and enjoyed expressing myself with my body.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Childhood, Expressing, Famous, Kid, Memory, Music
I remember being captivated by Jules Verne’s ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ when I read it as a kid.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Childhood, Famous, Kid, Memories, Read
When I was a little boy, my wish was to be on an airplane. My wish was to get on a plane and fly to the sky.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Childhood, Dream, Famous, Flying, Plane, Sky
Chum was a British boy’s weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
Author: A. E. vanTopics: Childhood, Children, Christmas, Follow, Following, Parent-child interactions, Parental Influence, Parenting
I’ve always loved music since I was a little kid.
Author: J Balvin
Topics: Childhood, Famous, Little kid, Loved, Music
Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Childhood, Famous, Growing up, Survives
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
Author: Jimmy BuffettTopics: Childhood, Famous, Meaningful
My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it’s loosely based on my father’s childhood in an orphanage.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Childhood, Famous, Father, Favorite, Night, Orphanage, Real life, Realism
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Childhood, Famous, Teenagers
I want something mouthwatering and tasty which reminds me of childhood. The scent of a fairground, candy floss, little cakes, chocolates and caramels. Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style
Author: Thierry MuglerTopics: Childhood, Fairground, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Mouthwatering, Perfume, Style, Tasty
It is a childhood dream to be in the World Cup
Author: Thibaut CourtoisTopics: Childhood, Dream, Famous, Feelings
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
Author: Gagan NarangTopics: Car, Childhood, Famous, Gun, Interested, Kids
PSG is the team I’ve always supported, since I was little.
Author: Gael MonfilsTopics: Childhood, Famous, Football, PSG, Supported, Team
It was a passion from my childhood to work for children, I carried it forward. I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Childhood, Children, Famous, Passion, Poverty, Social Work, Work
You have given the great honour … to hundreds of millions of children in the world who are deprived of their childhood and health and education, and fundamental right to freedom. It is a great moment for all those children.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Childhood, Children, Education, Famous, Freedom, Fundamental, Great, Health, Honor, Millions, Rights, World
I was personally concerned and involved in child rights-related activities right from my childhood.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Activities, Childhood, Concerned, Famous, Involved
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Childhood, Famous, Freedom, Humankind, Sin
Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Child, Childhood, Famous, Matters
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Child, Childhood, Famous, Point of view, Positive, Simplicity, World
She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I’m so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
Author: Kaia Gerber
Topics: Childhood, Experience, Famous, Glad, Grow up, Kid, Knows, Mom, Support
I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
Author: Kai BirdTopics: Childhood, Famous, Fragrance, Jerusalem, Love, Memories, Middle East, Modernity, Streets
My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Author: Kai BirdTopics: Career, Childhood, Famous, Father, Israelis, Near East
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven’t in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
Author: Kacey MusgravesTopics: Childhood, Famous, Ideas, Long Time, Myself., Paragraphs, Poem, Write
The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood
Author: Theophilus LondonTopics: Childhood, Famous, Feelings, Iconic, Life, Meaningful
My dad used to turn of the TV an scold me to study.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Childhood, Dad, Famous, Memories, Scolding, Study
While growing up, I used to go to the beach, as I used to find peace there.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Calm, Childhood, Famous, Growing up, Nature, Peace, Relaxation, Sand, Solitude
The dream of every kid is to play for the country, and I am no different.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Childhood, Country, Dream, Famous, Kid, National glory, National pride, National Team, Strong desire
He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.
Author: K. D. LangTopics: Childhood, Crush, Eyes, Famous, Love, Mirror, Practice, Praise
I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
Author: K. A. ApplegateTopics: Childhood, Crazy, Famous, Local, Memories, Mom, Newspapers, Story
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Topics: Childhood, Famous, Fear, Memories, Sadness, Unhappy
My name is Jervas Dudley, and from earliest childhood I have been a dreamer and a visionary.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Childhood, Famous, Visionary
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Bring, Childhood, Famous, Fear, Memories, Sadness, Unhappy
I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to ‘do well in school, ’cause no one’s going to marry you!
Author: Gabrielle UnionTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Popular, School, Self-Awareness
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere.
Author: Zubin MehtaTopics: Childhood, Children, Language, Music, Music choice, Music Education
So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Childhood, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Resentments
It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
Topics: Childhood, Children, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Self, Self Belief, Self prepared
Poetry simply exists within me, and on my lap; it is the thirst of a submerged childhood. Although the result is bitter and hard, the poetry I make cleanses me of the world’s dust and even the inscrutable, essential vileness similar to what we call original sin.
Author: Gabriela MistralTopics: Childhood, Exist, Famous, Inspirational, Original, Poetry, Sin, Thirst, Vileness, World
I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
Author: Gabriela MistralTopics: Carrying, Childhood, Famous, Favorite, Flowers, Lost, Perfume
When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.
Author: Gabriel IglesiasTopics: Childhood, Experience, Famous, Impression., Kid, Story, Voice
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.
Topics: Childhood, Especially, Essay, Home, Home life, Memorize, Memory, Social Connection, Social Equality, Used To, Useful, Useful Things
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded…I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed…I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Childhood, Children, Mother, Mother Nature, Starving, State, Statement, Sudden, Suffer
There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child is in action and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Act, Action, Child, Childhood, Daily, Everyone, Everything, Home, Home life, Right, Right decisions, Right lines, United, United States
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we’d vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
Author: Gabriel BassoTopics: Childhood, Dad, Experience, Famous, Hunted, Lived, Treehouse, Vacation
My mom used to tell me when I was little, ‘When it rains, it’s God’s manifestation — a big day’s waiting to happen.’
Author: Gabby DouglasTopics: Childhood, Experience, Famous, Manifestations, Mom, Waiting
I think of myself as constantly realizing a childhood dream.
Author: Enzo FerrariTopics: Childhood, Dream, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Realize
Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Childhood, Christmas, Famous, Human
I’m ceded – I’ve stopped being Theirs – The name They dropped opon my face With water, in the country church Is finished using, now, And They can put it with my Dolls, My childhood, and the string of spools, I’ve finished threading – too
Author: Emily DickinsonTopics: Childhood, Church, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, String
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
Author: G. Stanley HallTopics: Childhood, Famous, Glory, Inspirational, Nature, Oneness, Teacher
Childhood decisions do not have to define you.
Author: Selena Marie GomezTopics: Childhood, Famous, Meaningful
I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
Author: G-EazyTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Hair, Life, Sixth
People think, ‘Well, religion is good for mankind. It must be worth teaching it to children.’ Well, you have to look at the texts. You have to say, ‘Do I, as a parent, if I can avoid it, want my child to be taught this?’
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Child, Childhood, Different, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Looked, Looking, Looking forward, Meaningful, Parents, Thighs, Think, Thinking mind
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation, is that good for the world?
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Childhood, Children, Creation, Creative, Creative Aspects, Famous, Feelings, Good, Image, Imaginary, Life, Meaningful, Wealth, Workout, World
My childhood favourite is mum’s shepherd’s pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It’s because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.
Author: Gordon RamsayTopics: Childhood, Discovered, Famous, Favorite, Helping, Inspiration, Inspirational, Love, Mother, Mother's, Motivation, Motivational, Roasted potatoes, Shepherd's pie
We didn’t have a lot of money, so it was a very hard upbringing with very limited food on the table. We never sat down to a starter, main course and pudding and we had to eat everything we were given. There was no such thing as ‘don’t like’ in our family.
Author: Gordon RamsayTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Hard, Inspirational, Life, Limited food, Poverty, Upbringing
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Childhood, Famous, Magical, Meaningful, World
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Childhood, Children, Famous, Grateful, Inspirational, Stockings
My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood – very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
Author: Paris HiltonTopics: Childhood, Famous, kitchen, Little, Meaningful
If I carefully consider others, God will consider me, and in some way or other He will recompense me. Let me consider the poor, and the LORD will consider me. Let me look after little children, and the LORD will treat me as His child. Let me feed His flock, and He will feed me. Let me water His garden, and He will make a watered garden of my soul. This is the LORD’s own promise; be it mine to fulfill the condition and then to expect its fulfillment.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Childhood, Children, Fulfilling, Fulfillment, Human Condition, Human Emotions, Lord, Lord God, Promises, Soul, Treat
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Child, Childhood, Christmas, Famous, Foundation, Founder, Goodness, Life, Something, Sometimes, Somewhere
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk
Author: Carl JungTopics: Child, Childhood, Education, Famous, Feelings, Grow, Growing, Growing up, Talent
As a child, I felt myself to be alone and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know
Author: Carl JungTopics: Child, Childhood, Lesson, Little Things, Nothing, Part, Participation, Still, Stillness
Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , – have you seen my childhood ?
Author: Michael JacksonTopics: Childhood, Famous, Heart, Meaningful
All of us are products of our childhood.
Author: Michael JacksonTopics: Childhood, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Products
Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either I was going through or someone else in my life was going through.
Author: Melanie MartinezTopics: Childhood, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Situation, Someone
Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for?
Author: C. S. LewisTopics: Childhood, Desire, Friend, Friendship, Human, Human behavior, Inner passions, Listening
My childhood was full of deep sorrows – colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.
Author: George EliotTopics: Childhood, Famous, Sky, Sorrow
Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Author: George EliotTopics: Childhood, Famous, Inspirational, Memory, No forebodings, Outlived, Sorrows
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
Author: George EliotTopics: Childhood, Earth, Famous, Inspirational, Love, Motivational
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?
Author: George EliotTopics: Childhood, Famous, Love, Nature
The greatest moment of my life was when I was eight years old and asked my mother what the capital of Uruguay was. She didn’t know, but she took me to the library where I found out it was Montevideo. It was like a huge light went on in my head. That was it.
Author: George BestTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Greatest moment, Inspirational, Library, Life, Mother
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Childhood, False, Famous, Learning, Meaningful, Middle Age, Utterly, Work
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
Author: Marcel ProustTopics: Childhood, Famous, Favorite, Inspirational, Meaningful, Perhaps
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.
Author: George CarlinTopics: Childhood, Past experiences
The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children
Author: Audre LordeTopics: Childhood, Poetry, Ready
If you don’t heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Childhood, Heal, Healing
I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change
Author: Novak DjokovicTopics: Childhood, Experience, Famous, Feelings, Grow, Meaningful
Obviously, from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I’ve been holdin’ my own since that age
Author: Nipsey HussleTopics: Age, Childhood, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Streets, Teenage
Bone Thugs is one of my favorite rap groups of all time. I listened to them all the time when I was a kid.
Author: Lil DurkTopics: Childhood, Famous, Favorite, Rap groups
I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.
Author: Lil DurkTopics: Child, Childhood, Commitment, Experiences, Famous, Father, Grew Up, Kids, President
Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, … It’s been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Childhood, Famous, Feelings, Greatness, Life, Time
Ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
Author: LeBron JamesTopics: Childhood, Famous, Positive Attitude
When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‘Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.
Author: LeBron JamesTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Unstable period
I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
Author: Lana Del ReyTopics: Childhood, Famous, Inspirational, Love, Reading
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.
Author: Lana Del ReyTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Mortal, Philosophical crisis
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Jumping, Pretend
I don’t deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn’t because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
Author: B.F. SkinnerTopics: Childhood, Children, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Operate, Positive
Know, Nature’s children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear
Author: Alexander PopeTopics: Childhood, Divide, Divine Love, Knowing, Knowledge
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Child, Childhood, Depends, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive
As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called ‘a little crazy’. And now I guess I’m still that way.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Childhood, Famous, Growing up, Hollywood, Individuality, Inspirational, Kid, Little Crazy, Personality, Unchanged
I went to a concert once when I was a little kid and ran up onstage, started dancing, started saying anything that came to my head. I was like a little vaudevillian.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Kid, Onstage, Vaudevillian
We are all shaped from memories we have as young people.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Memories, Positive, Young
I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other half lived.
Topics: Childhood, Experiences, Inspirational, Lifestyles, Moral Decay, Negative, PositiveI’ve never done drugs. That’s because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Childhood, Drugs, Experiences, Famous, Life, Personal Experiences
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Activities, Alive, Child, Childhood, Children, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Good Life, Human Activity, Human Life, Innner Beauty, Life, Permitting, Truth
Mom would say, ‘Get out of the house,’ and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying foxes and various death traps throughout the forest that we’d try and do our best to hurt ourselves on. It was a great childhood in terms of being creative, I think.
Author: Luke HemsworthTopics: Childhood, Experiences, Famous, Life
Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
Author: Lady BirdTopics: Childhood, Famous, Untamed
After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
Author: Mary OliverTopics: Childhood, World
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Author: Adam sandlerTopics: Advice, Capabilities, Childhood, Children, Famous, Feelings, Life
I was gonna rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He’s no Alexander! I’m Alexander! I’m the best ever. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s never been anyone like me. I’m from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I’m the ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!
Author: Mike TysonTopics: Brutal, Champion, Childhood, Children, Ferocious, Impetuous, Sonny Liston
This is much more than I dreamed about as a boy. I want to thank football in general for what it has given me.
Author: Lionel MessiTopics: Acknowledgement, Childhood, Dream, Famous, Football, Fulfillment, Influence, Inspiration, Joy, Positive
I don’t know, I’ve liked football since I was a kid and I’ve always dreamt of becoming a professional footballer, I never thought of any other job.
Author: Lionel MessiTopics: Childhood, Desire, Dream, Encouragement, Famous, Football, Footballer, Inspiration, Professional Footballer
Football has been my life since I was a kid. My style remains the same, I love every single minute I get on the pitch. I know I have a great responsibility, and that there are objectives to accomplish, but I try to have fun too, because that’s what i love to do.
Author: Lionel MessiTopics: Childhood, Enjoy, Everything, Famous, Football, Fulfillment, Happiness, Life, Love, Motivation, Passionate, Possibility, Responsibilities
When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.
Author: Lionel MessiTopics: Child, Childhood, Determination, Famous, Friend, Practice
I had a nice childhood, even though I grew up in hotels.
Author: Luca ModricTopics: Childhood, Circumstances, Experiences, Explore, Famous, Feelings
My childhood years were very painful. I was only 5 when the Croatian War of Independence broke out. I was living in a war zone and lost my grandfather in that war.
Author: Luca ModricTopics: Childhood, Circumstances, Crucial, Death, Destruction, Experiences, Family, Famous, Hard Time, Hardship, Life, Problems, Sorrows, Suffering, War
When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Achievement, Acknowledgement, Business, Care, Challenge, Child, Childhood, Comparision, Connection, Courage, Dedication, Deep, Desire, Development, Education, Effort, Entrepreneur, Express, Family, Feeling, Focus, Goals, Job, Journey, Life, Love, Parenting, Precious, Work
I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It’s like battle wounds – you come out the other side, and it just makes you tougher.
Author: Lewis HamiltonTopics: Challenge, Childhood, Criticize, Crucial, Encouragement, Famous, Feelings, Pain, Racism, Strength, Struggle, Successful
When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Cheat, Childhood, Children, Confession, Crucial, Dangerous, Education, Enjoyment, Friendship, Journey, Lesson, Life, Mind, Player, Truth
I always want to be the best at what I do. As a kid, whatever I was doing, if I was playing football or whatever I was applying my energy to at the time, I always wanted to do it to the best of my abilities. And I was always interested in finding out how I could do it better.
Author: Lewis HamiltonTopics: Childhood, Desire, Dream, Energy, Enjoyment, Everything, Experiences, Famous, Growth, Improve, Learning
I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood, I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn’t had support, I wouldn’t have been able to fulfil my dreams.
Author: Lionel MessiTopics: Achievement, Childhood, Contributions, Courage, Desire, Dream, Family, Famous, Fear, Feelings, Home, Life, Possibility, Problems, Relationship, Source, Struggle, Successful, Support, Time