All Quotes

My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'
‐‐ Curtis Granderson

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
‐‐ Denis Leary

My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

My cheerleader part in 'Fired Up!' is really funny.
‐‐ Julianna Guill

My chefs don't apply for 'Top Chef'. They all know that there is no way. At the end of the process I look at the resumes of the last 25 options just to make sure they've never worked for me before.
‐‐ Tom Colicchio

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.
‐‐ Gerard Way

My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
‐‐ Flavor Flav

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
‐‐ Robert E. Lee

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.
‐‐ Brooke Smith

My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.
‐‐ Celine Dion

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
‐‐ Allison Pearson

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
‐‐ Lee Atwater

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
‐‐ Teddy Sears

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
‐‐ Robert Vaughn

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.
‐‐ Martha Wainwright

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.
‐‐ Grant Gustin

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
‐‐ Godfrey Gao

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
‐‐ Dan Shechtman

My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.
‐‐ Aminatta Forna

My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images of other people's unhappiness. Perhaps that was just the way the world manifested itself to me.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
‐‐ Natalia Vodianova

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood

My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
‐‐ Louise Bourgeois

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
‐‐ Frank McCourt

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
‐‐ Robert B. Laughlin

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.
‐‐ Columba Bush

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.
‐‐ Columba Bush

My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me.
‐‐ Russell Westbrook

My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.
‐‐ David Gross

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

My childhood is always going to limit me.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
‐‐ Peter Jurasik

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.
‐‐ Ellen Gilchrist

My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect. For instance, me and my sister, when we were little, we would compete to see who could eat the most squirrel brains.
‐‐ Shea Hembrey

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.
‐‐ Jacqueline de Ribes

My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
‐‐ Poppy Z. Brite

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.
‐‐ David Suzuki

My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.
‐‐ Kristina McMorris

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles