Quotes About Childhood

I was always the sniffly kid with bags under my eyes.

I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had started my apprenticeship at a bakery.

Since I was a kid, baking has been part of my life.

My parents divorced when I was seven and baking was something that helped me to take my mind off things.

I started singing before I started talking. And that's the God's honest truth. I think it was something that I've always loved to do, even if I wasn't good at it. I just loved ballads.

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

I did ballet when I was a kid.

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.

When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.

I gave up ballet when I was four because I was so shy.

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

When we used to live in a chawl during our childhood, we would play Holi with water balloons.

I'm a little embarrassed to talk about it now, but the very first sport that I did, if you can call it sport, was ballroom dancing. I was aged seven to nine or 10.

Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

The first rock record I ever bought was 'Great Balls of Fire.' I was real little, and I went to Atlanta to get it.

When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

I grew up in Baltimore.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books. And my mother would read to my brother and I and we had all those advantages that everyone says you need to be successful in school and I was successful in school.

I grew up in Denton, east Manchester, and was raised by my late father, Reg, a barber.

Barbie is just a doll.

I loved playing with Barbies - that's why I didn't stop!