Philip Pullman Quotes

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.

Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

I suppose I would like to find out more about my grandparents because I knew them when I was too young to grasp that they were interesting people. They were my grandparents, source of treats.

My name at birth was Carol Joan Klein. It would take me five decades to appreciate my surname and the history that came with it. Along the way, I would add an 'e' to Carol and acquire several more surnames.

As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of who you are just as much as your family or your school.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

I was a kid from Winnipeg - I didn't know anything about the world.

Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.