Quotes About Childhood

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.