Quotes About Childhood

Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'

My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.

When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.

My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

I'm going to raise my kids the opposite of how I was raised. I wasn't given healthy food, educated on portion control, or encouraged to exercise. I wish I had those things.

I was a child prodigy. Like Michelangelo, who could draw a perfect circle at age five. I was extremely gifted. I could paint a perfect portrait of someone at age five.

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.