Quotes About Childhood

Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool - I don't know why.

I grew up on 'Monty Python.'

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

As a child I qualified for free school meals, so I know I would have been in one of the families that needed help to gain access to a laptop.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.

Both the quantity and quality of the words children hear during their first three years of life make an enormous difference in how prepared they are to start school, and ultimately, their long-term achievement.

I remember watching 'Quantum Leap' when I was a kid with my family, so I think that's fun and nostalgic.

When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.

I mean, if you told me I would be one of the quarterbacks of the New York Giants when I was 6 years old in kindergarten, I think I'd take that.

Growing up in Quebec, we were always playing sports. Your first athletic competition was against the kids living on your block.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

I've always been a bit of a drama queen. I was into make-believe and dressing up.

I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.

My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

I used to go to Dairy Queen all the time. It always brings back a little bit of memories. As kids, we always used to go get ice cream.

I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.

I've known I was gay since I was young, I think. And I mean young - like, young - like 5 or 6. I think most gay people or queer people know there's something different about them very early, but I didn't know what to call it.