“When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.” WritingChildrenPersonsStoriesFilmDiesBornCasesNovelSawsChildhoodProductionsEnormousCuriousButtonsElderlyNewbornBradProdigiesProdigiousScott FitzgeraldNewborn ChildBenjamin Button Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.” WorldCountryAmericaEnergyTermCan DoPayPovertyCasesChildhoodCollegeHighestClimateWorkersRateClimate ChangeDumbGermanyLazyOther CountriesEquityTransformingTuitionCollege Tuition Author:Bernie Sanders
“My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."” IfsWantSaidActorsFatherParentCasesStudyNiceChildhoodFineReally NiceWelding Author:Robin Williams
“If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.” IfsTwoUseProblemCareCasesChildhoodCostPercentThirdsMedicalPrimariesExpensesCurvesCompetitorsComprehensiveObesityReconcileChargingChildhood ObesityPrimary Care Author:William J. Clinton
“Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.” KnowsSometimesWould BeCertainDifficultMemoriesCasesChildhoodEmotionalDown AndPainfulUpsetNails Author:Justin Torres
“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.” FormCasesAtheismChildhoodEssentialsExtraordinaryConvincedUnhappyExceptionalFormationUnhappy Childhood Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.” WorldWellsWholeSocialRealizingCasesChildhoodAdultsAll ThingsNotionKingdomsBrutalNastyBeing CoolArbiter Author:Peter Cameron
“Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.” PeopleChanceCasesChildhoodMaterialsVictoryNewspapersHatedInjuryArticlesDogmaRemarksInadequateScrapEdificeSmall Victories Author:Salman Rushdie
“I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.” FirstsHas BeensCountryFactsRealityLyingDifferencesNumbersCasesChildhoodTruth IsInfiniteCeaseAlternativesIndianInfinityAdolescenceUnrealityAdriftJugglersFalseness Author:Salman Rushdie
“I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.” CasesChildhoodDivorceNineClassicAffectedFatherhoodGood Childhood Author:Kurt Cobain