Quotes of: Wonderful-childhood Keyword

Cousin Tilly: Mrs Bailey is on the phone. George Bailey: I don't want Mrs Bailey I want my wife... Mrs Bailey? Oh, that's my wife.

It's a Wonderful Life

I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism b...

Shekhar Kapur

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people ...

Lloyd Kaufman

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

Augustine of Hippo

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

Abraham Maslow

ABC of a wonderful life: A man of the right ATTITUDE is GOOD; A man of the right ATTITUDE+the correct BEHAVIOR is BETTER; But, a man of the right ATTITUDE+the correct BEHAVIOR +an upright CHARACTER is THE BEST human.

Anuj Somany

She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan was brilliant at what he did, and he might well have made it even if Ash’s father hadn’t encouraged him, but it really helped that Ethan had grown...

The Interestings

I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a history of conflict. It only takes bad leadership for a country to go up in flames, for people of different ethnicity, color...

Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

It’s sarcasm, Josh.” “Sarcasm?” “It’s from the Greek, sarkasmos. To bite the lips. It means that you aren’t really saying what you mean, but people will get your point. I invented it, Bartholomew named it.” “Well, if the village idi...

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

The Complete Uncollected Stories

It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us. -MUKTA

The Color of our Sky

The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.

God Help the Child

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

Goodnight June

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

Grendel

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

Pete Wentz

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

Taiye Selasi