Frank McCourt Quotes
When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.
Frank McCourt
Quotes to Explore
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
Saina Nehwal
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
Gail Z. Martin
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
Wang Leehom
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
Cameron Winklevoss
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Kailash Satyarthi
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The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.
David Elkind
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Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
Estella Warren
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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
J. D. Salinger
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When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.
Frank McCourt