Quotes About Childhood

When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said.

I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Tooth Fairy" Growing up in the Northwest was tough. For years I thought the Tooth Fairy was a big boat with cars and sharp teeth.

I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I'd just been born?

When I was a wee little kid, " remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.

The only thing weaker than a toddler's handshake is their immune system.

In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally piss off our parents.

When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.

I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.

When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains.

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother Edward came along we both became comics, making each other laugh.

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.