Quotes About Childhood

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street Elementary School in South-Central Los Angeles. I was in the fifth grade.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.

My mother was really beautiful, and I had to deal with her being objectified my entire childhood. But she also had this depth and purity that was almost otherworldly.

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple.

I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.

My favorite piece of clothing as a boy was a purple Magic Johnson jersey from the Los Angeles Lakers.

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.

The second-grade films - where are they? No more are they made, and yet they were by far the best films for holding hands at, and wasn't this always the main purpose of the cinema?

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.

I don't want the child in me to die. Fortunately, I'm lucky enough that my profession allows me to pursue my boyhood fantasies even as an adult.

I started dancing at the age of three in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio, and it really was my sister's dream to pursue dance professionally.

Houston is where I grew up and luckily I didn't have to go far to pursue my dream of becoming an astronaut.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

By the time I was 4 or 5, I was doing 250 push-ups and sit-ups a day. When I was 6, we bumped it up to about 500 push-ups and sit-ups a day. Some days it could even be 750 or 1,000.

It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child's brain at the elementary levels.

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

I've ridden shopping bikes. My dad held my saddle and pushed me along when I was five. I've had a go on a BMX.

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.