“ People ask me where I got my x-ray powers. I inherited them from my parents in parental supervision. Erase the dots and your doubts if you think that I was 'raysed' alone. Ana Claudia Antunes
“ Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things Laurie Lee
“ My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm. Gillian Flynn
“ It’s sadthat burnt marshmallowsmake me think ofmethamphetamine,when theyshould bringback childhoodmemories ofs’mores Phil Volatile
“ Some of my earliest and fondest memories of my mother are of her kneeling at the side of per bed every night and praying. As a child, I would always get very close to her as she prayed. I would put my… Barbara Bice
“ First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's been shot, noise from my mother, I run to her room behind her, I'm jumping on the canopi… Frances Mayes
“ In the tell-me-again times, (…) when my mom and I lived in a little apartment in a little building downtown, I slept in her bed. It was a raft on the ocean, a cloud, a forest, a spaceship, a cocoon th… Erica Lorraine Scheidt
“ It's said (truly) that most women forget the pain of childbirth; I think that we all forget the pain of being a child at school for the first time, the sheer ineptitude, as though you'll never learn t… Lorna Sage
“ There would remain no sign of you ever having played in this house. Your childhood is going to be swept under a camel-skin rug and elevators are going to be built over the lake we once swam in. This a… Kunal Sen
“ ...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgott… John Geddes
“ The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents’ house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to anyone expect the holder of the memory. Parenting in large part consists of cr… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible. Jonathan Harnisch
“ Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else.... Kiana Davenport
“ By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions. D.K. LeVick
“ And then, on the final day, it was time for the faux Underground Railroad. This is the part that no one believes. "No adult would ever do that," they say. "You can't be remembering that right." I am,… Lena Dunham
“ The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past. Erik Tomblin
“ That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, jus… Jenny Lawson
“ But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for a while to get to a highway cause there was… Timothy Victor Richardson
“ My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child. Dan Groat
