Quotes About Childhood

My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up by the back legs, and skin it in front of us. Then I'd take the head home and make soup

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take her to my mom's closet and show her the new collection.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.