Quotes About Childhood

I would wonder why I was gaining weight even after playing and exercising so much. It was only after I grew up that I got to know that the paranthas were called baldaar because of the amount of cream and ghee that went into making them.

What adults don't always understand is that to a kid, a comic book is like a movie. My Marvel comics took my imagination to other places - other galaxies.

I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came from that. I didn't read a book without pictures until I was 21.

The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an easy thing in those days.

I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.

I lived in Chamarajpet, Gandhi Nagar, Shanthinagar, and Sudhama Nagar during my early days.

My life has been inspired by Mahatma Gandhi from the days of my childhood.

I watch a lot of CNN and the Food Network. Now, I'm learning how to cook healthy - when I was a kid low-fat was a Chinese gangster.

When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.

It's always lovely for babies to grow up in a similar age gap and it's nice to have cousins be of a similar age.

I spent hours playing in the garden on my own. I used to play cricket with myself. I never remember thinking, I wish I had a brother or sister. I had a lot of friends, and that was fine.

I had a little ladybird ball in the back garden; I think I was about one. I started off early.

I have played quite a few Test matches in the back garden with my two brothers.

Growing up in Belgium, I played football all of the time, in the garden, on the street.

My parents' garden is where I learned to play - and love - football. When I was little, only 4 or 5, I'd be out there with my dad, who taught me how to pass and shoot, first with my left foot and then with my right.

I've been interested in basketball since I was a little kid - like, 3. The Bulls were my team. If you grew up in Gary, the Bulls were everybody's team.

My mother was a dancer when she was a kid and I gather she was very good, but was never allowed to go into the profession.

The memories I can gather now of my parents are quite contradicting. My mother was the disciplinarian and my dad was the rule breaker.

When I was little, my parents would have these gatherings, and it was a common thing for me and my cousins to have to put on, like, shows.

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.

I wouldn't say I really admired anyone. When I was a kid, there were definitely a lot of tough guys, but they weren't really cool. If anything, that was an influence on me: to take that toughness and combine it with the cool style, the cool entrance, the cool gear - and driving to work in a Ferrari.

It's been amazing to me every day just putting on that Team U.S.A. gear. That's the team that I used to watch as a kid on NBA TV and now I'm a part of it! It doesn't get much cooler than that.

I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek.