Quotes About Childhood

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?