The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

There is no gambling like politics.

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

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

I always love going on a safari drive whenever I visit Ulusaba Private Game Reserve in South Africa. I’ve been fortunate to see so many incredible animals over the years, and each time, it’s completely different. Following Ulusaba’s pack of wild dogs is my highlight.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

My mother did not like children.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

Mine is better than ours.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.