Quotes About Childhood

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

I haven't been in a good mood since I was 6 years old

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

I was very good at kickball ... I was wonderful at ah doing that kick and your leg goes up and your shoe went on top of the school

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste.

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.