Quotes About Childhood

I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.

Back in my school days, when I would scuttle off with a cheese roll, an apple, a box of Sun-Maid raisins and a Penguin bar, my packed lunches were reassuringly predictable. And I liked it that way.

I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

As a kid, I didn't drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.

I loved 'Beakman's World' growing up. As much as I loved 'Bill Nye,' I always preferred 'Beakman's World' because I thought it was funnier.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

My relationship with the 'Baby-Sitters Club' series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as well. Trixie Belden was like Nancy Drew, but without the boyfriends and cute outfits, which I think is the reason my mother preferred her.

I watched football, but I was a kid who really preferred being out on the street with my mates playing hide and seek!

It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born.

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

I've always loved the Premier League, I watched it as a child and I always liked the style of play here.

As a child, I always wanted to come to the Premier League, so when I made the move, I was very happy. Chelsea were on the up - they were doing really good - so I was very excited, and in the end, everything went well here for me.

The Premier League is not my goal but a childhood dream. It is a dream that could be fulfilled.

It is a dream from my childhood: I always wanted to play in the Premier League, which is one of the best leagues in the world.

When 'The Kid' made its premiere I was so young I fell asleep and never saw the movie.

When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.

If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

My dad was trying to prepare me for what he went through as a kid.

I want to make sure kids read by the third grade and are prepared for the fourth grade. As school gets harder and kids get older, the words get bigger... If they don't understand what they are reading, they start to fall back, and their interest in school falls off.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.