Quotes About Childhood

Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.

My mother said, 'This is your new brother, Michael, and from now on your father is sleeping in the barn.' I didn't know what that meant for a long time. Eight kids in a little over ten years.

Whether we like it or not, the people who raise us leave an indelible mark.

push him to rely on himself. It's essential for every child, but more so for Noah. He'll need the confidence going forward if he's to overcome his limitations." "I know.

Now, would you do something for me before I kiss you good-night?" "What do you need, Noah?" "I need you to look behind the shower curtain and under the bed. Then lock me out and put the trunk against the door." "Noah, did you have monsters under the bed when you were little?" He touched her nose. "No. Because I checked." *

the best thing you can give a child you love is happy memories and a foundation they can be proud of." Something

I know, I know, but there was something about the pains we had as kids, the melodrama and agony over things that didn't really matter but mattered so much just the same….

She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee.

The finality of her leaving allowed me to reclaim the places that had once been ours as mine, to say good-bye to my childhood parks and hiking trails rather than grasping for lost moments with a lost girl who refused to be found.

I was such an ugly kid. When I played in the sandbox the cat kept trying to cover me up.

My childhood was rough. Once for my birthday, my old man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

I'm so ugly, as a kid, I once stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the seesaw. I had to keep running from one end to the other.

What a childhood! I was breast-fed by my father.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.

In my life I've been through plenty. When I was three years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.

When I was a kid, I got no respect. I told my mother I'm gonna run away from home. She said, "On your mark…

My mother, she never breastfed me. She told me she liked me as a friend.

I was an ugly kid. My mother breast-fed me through a straw.

We love ghost stories not just because they explain what happens at the end of our lives but because they take us to the beginning, and we reconnect to our childhood, pleasurably. The deliciousness of mediated fear is a great attraction, one that many do not want to grow out of.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.