Quotes About Childhood

When I was growing up, my father was naturally a very busy man and was not around for long periods of time. Despite that he was always emotionally with me.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy when I was a kid - his music and 'Hee Haw' made me perk my ears up and made me say, 'What is this? I want to hear more of that.' He was that catalyst for me to start this whole run in country music.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We've learned to cope in ways you never had to.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

This variable, how a parent responds to a child's vocalizations—right in the moment—seems to be the most powerful mechanism pulling a child from babble to fluent speech.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you . It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

Ya, alangkah indah masa kecil yang lalu. Dan kini aku menembangkan keindahan dalam kenang-kenangan.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates. All of us, when we were children, also only imitated. But children grow up and begin their own development.

Pada setiap awal pertumbuhan, katanya, semua hanya meniru. Setiap kita semasa kanak-kanak juga hanya meniru. Tetapi kanak-kanak itu pun akan dewasa, mempunyai perkembangan sendiri.

When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Later, I met a woman to whom I said, "If all my family had stood around me as a child and said, 'You're wonderful. You're wonderful. You're wonderful.' after an hour I would have complained, 'You're not saying it loud enough.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.