Quotes About Childhood

We were taught fortitude by our parents, who had gone through the war. Being a child then was fun. We could go out and play in the street - there were few cars - and we felt very safe.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate.

I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.

When we were younger, we fought, but that's what kids do, right?

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.

I have a hernia scar from when I was a kid. I had a hernia when I was like in fourth grade.

I am the fourth of five children, and I can't remember a time with no babies in the house.

I started going to chess clubs when I was in fourth grade. From fourth grade to seventh grade, I was in chess club.

I remember the first time somebody classified me as a feminist. I was in fourth grade. And I remember thinking, 'Oh, is that what I am?' At the time, I just cared about equality.

My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.

My dream was to play for France. It's been my dream since childhood.

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

My dad had a dominoes team, and there was a Frank Skinner in it. When I was a kid I used to look at the team card and think it was a brilliant name, so that's what I went for.

Me and my parents would watch old 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' and all those old black and white movies - as a kid, I'd lie in bed thinking that they would come out at night.

I remember watching 'Abbott and Costello vs Frankenstein' continuously as a kid and being amazed that my horror legends were making a comedy.

I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.

If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out.

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.

North of England, you're brought up on fish and chips. Friday or Saturdays every week, it was a treat.