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Quotes About Childhood

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
~ Florence Pugh
I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.
~ James Spader
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.
~ Garry Marshall
Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
~ Ben Miller
I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.
~ Antoine Fuqua
I had no childhood, really, so I imagined more than played, and that definitely led to my showbusiness image, the theatrics and the drama of my life.
~ Grace Jones
I played classical as a kid.
~ John Legend
My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
~ J. G. Ballard
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
~ Zach Roerig
As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
When I was on the playground, people were calling me Jackie Chan.
~ Jimmy O. Yang
My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.
~ Dominique Moceanu
I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.
~ Peter Capaldi
In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.
~ Sue Townsend
I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid and was always doing bits for my friends and family. I remember doing pratfalls on the playground in fourth grade for my friend and really hurting my hip.
~ Busy Philipps
When you walk in the door at Green Bay and see the murals of all the football players you knew as a fan, it can get to you. I grew up being Bart Starr and Paul Hornung on the playground.
~ Mike Holmgren
I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
~ Maeve Binchy
I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.
~ Sarah Hall
My playground was our company. That's really where I grew up.
~ Linda Johnson Rice
My playground growing up was the fields and forests.
~ Vic Reeves
I grew up on a farm playing backyard footie in my bare feet.
~ Beauden Barrett
I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross.
~ Rachael Stirling
I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.
~ Jason Mewes
In my childhood, I always played as Barcelona on the PlayStation.
~ Marco Reus