Childhood Quotes
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We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.
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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
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Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.
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Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.
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It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye.
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I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.
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I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
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This is a good day for the world's children. Children who today have no right to their own childhood, to education, to personal inviolability, have with these two representatives, these prize winners, got a voice both for the right to education - particularly for girls - and against unfair and exploitative child labor.
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I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
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I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.
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My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.
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I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.
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It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.
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I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.
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As I walked towards travel, that illusion of liberation, I strangely felt myself walking back into childhood.
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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
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I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.
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The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity for my brother Alistair and me to escape from the classroom and enjoy the great outdoors. Our childhood was jam-packed with fun family games and activities.
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I believe every childhood should be magical.
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
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It was a very well-rounded childhood with lots of different opportunities. My mom will say she set out to overstimulate me - surround me with way too many things and let me pick. As a result, I've always been a multitasker; I've always liked a lot of variety.
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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
