Quotes About Childhood

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.