Quotes About Childhood

Más que todo, ahora querría captar la luz que baña rostros ya invisibles, manteles cargados de comida desvanecida, esa luz que estaba ya ahí en los relatos de los domingos de infancia y que no ha dejado de posarse sobre las cosas vividas inmediatamente, una luz anterior. Salvar algo del tiempo en el que ya no estaremos nunca más

Mon père est entré dans la catégorie des gens simples ou modestes ou braves gens. Il n'osait plus me raconter des histoires de son enfance. Je ne lui parlais plus de mes études.

Cuando era niña, para mí el lujo eran los abrigos de pieles, los vestidos de noche y las mansiones a orillas del mar.

Quand j'étais enfant, le luxe, c'était pour moi les manteaux de fourrure, les robes longues et les villas au bord de la mer. Plus tard, j'ai cru que c'était de mener une vie d'intellectuel. Il me semble maintenant que c'est aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion pour un homme ou une femme

meer dan ooit zou ze nu vat willen krijgen op het licht dat spoelt om inmiddels vergane gezichten en tafellakens overladen met verdwenen voedsel, het licht dat al aanwezig was in de verhalen tijdens zondagse familie-etentjes uit de kindertijd en dat onverpoosd op de dingen is blijven neerdalen zodra ze tot het verleden gingen behoren, een licht van vroeger.

As time went by, it mattered less and less that in 1969 a rocket went from Florida to the moon and men walked there. Good men. People's dads. Those were only events, scattered in time. Draw them close, rub them between thumb and finger till they look like larvae, soften like silk, distend to knot, to weave. It takes a village to kill a child.

The traumas and abuses we suffer as children, the lack of consciousness with which we operate, the blind spots of our culture -all these serve to shut us down and twist our path off its basic course.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

There's this thing where Asian parents force you to play an instrument at an early age, but god forbid you like it and want to pursue it professionally! But, as a kid, I never did choir, and didn't sing.

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

As I got to about 9/10 years old I started to see roles on television that I wanted to play like a police officer in 'The Bill' or be a part of the 'Goodness Gracious Me Family' which I think further fuelled the desire to do this professionally.

Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'Mork & Mindy' - it takes no effort at all to conjure, physically, the profound excitement I felt watching these shows in prime time. I remember sitting on the floor, too close to the TV, rapt.

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

When I was small, I would sit next to my dad and watch the round-up highlights programme with him, and we would talk about the games. I loved it.

As a child I started working. Again I had luck with my father's help financially, but I also had to work. I had a programme after training in the afternoon in which I would go in front of my house to do various things and the phone boxes was something I did to earn some money.

I'm old enough to remember the days when you actually missed your favourite programme. Missed it. And cried. Possibly because you were a child, but not always.

The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.