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Quotes About Childhood

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
~ Emeril Lagasse
My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
~ Brigitte Bardot
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
~ Yul Vazquez
It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
~ Laurence Harvey
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
~ Augustus Hare
I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.
~ Stephen Sondheim
I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.
~ Phyllis Diller
Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
~ Little Richard
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.
~ Mel Brooks
Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.
~ Diane Cilento
My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
~ Winston Churchill
My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.
~ Pam Grier
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
~ Shawn Ashmore
My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.
~ Ram Kapoor
The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.
~ Evan Esar
My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.
~ Rita Rudner
I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
~ Peter Fonda
I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
~ Chevy Chase
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
~ David Cassidy
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
~ Mercedes Lackey
I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.
~ Cynthia Nixon
When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.
~ Ellen Barkin
I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.
~ Peter Sohn
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
~ Leverett Saltonstall