Quotes About Childhood

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

Its crazy! I'm watching Linsanity hoping every shot goes in. Hope I never grow up.

We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth's final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.

I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.

The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor.

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion.

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.