Quotes About Childhood

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring the guitar and exploring the space I was in, with no project in mind.

I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

If I wasn't from Philly, I couldn't promise you that I would have the same drive and the same ambition because, as a little kid, I always saw myself as making it out, and I would escape with television.

When I was in third grade, I promised my mom that I would get her a pink Cadillac Escalade.

I knew 'Promises,' and I knew 'Never Fall In Love Again,' only from the radio, from being a kid; and of course, that 'House is Not a Home' and 'Say A Little Prayer.'

I came in touch with music at an early age. My father was a show band promoter, who took me along as a little nipper of five and put me up on the stage with the musicians to sing.

My real name is Davenie Johanna Heatherton, but my older brother, Dick, couldn't pronounce Johanna when he was a boy. So he called me 'Joey.'

When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.

I think all human beings have a propensity to believe in things, and to have hope, and I think as a child especially you have a lot of hope and you believe in a lot of things, and your bedroom is a safe space and an imaginative space where you can escape and go off into wherever you want.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for a four-year-old because it was small.

When I was little, my oesophagus was too small, so I had to get it operated on to help me eat properly.

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

I went to a performing arts school. I went to an audition for a musical, 'Les Miserables,' in the West End, and I got in, and my parents were like, 'Oh, you can sing?' So I kind of started singing properly when I was, like, seven.

I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.

My daughter told me that she wants to become an actor even before she learnt to speak properly.

When I was little, acting opportunities were always proposed to me as 'a favour.'

I remember, as a federal prosecutor myself, it's only a 3-year appointment, and they interviewed my childhood neighbors.

As a kid, there was not much I could do to stop the violence in our home. When I got older, as a father, I did everything I could to raise my children with a father that loved them, protected them, and made them feel safe.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.