“Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.” ChildrenHomeAgeTogetherYoungMotherGivenGrowsVoiceMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingShareChildhoodStyleDrawsPrejudiceChosenOld AgeComparisonCompanionEchoesChildhood MemoriesHousekeepingOlder SisterYoung MotherHomemaking Author:Margaret Mead
“All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.” CharacterKidsChildhoodBrotherPaperDrawsAdultsWindowGlassesDrawingMy BrotherTracingDrawing Pictures Author:Maurice Sendak
“If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.” PeopleIfsStillsMomentsFeelingsDreamLightRememberSoundQualityChildhoodEmotionalParticularEssentialsDrawsUnusualRecallsFooledStill Life Author:Maurice Sendak
“I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.” YearsBookDreamKidsWantedNovelHellChildhoodPositionSeriousDrawsYeahComicFinding YourselfAdolescenceComic BookGraphicCollectorsGraphic NovelsUnfulfilled DreamsHell Yeah Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.” HumansHuman BeingsAnimalChildhoodDraws Book:The Undressed Art: Why We Draw Source: The Undressed Art: Why We Draw
“After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.” IfsLinesKnowingChildhoodDrawsResponsibleAdulthoodFifteen Author:LIZ
“I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.” YearsWantedChildhoodSeriousDrawsFormerComicNerdCollectors Author:Anthony Bourdain
“It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.” MadeSometimesChildhoodWindDrawsIdealsCaughtKingdomsRealmsWorthwhileHungGlimpseVeilsCommonplaceEarly ChildhoodEnchanting Book:The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Source: The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
“I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!” IfsWritingChildhoodAdventureComfortDrawsExcellentNot SureMixtures Author:Tove Jansson