Quotes About Childhood

I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.

My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

As a child, I was always playing some generic child.

My very first system was the Sega Genesis back when I was 7 or 8 years old. I played that into the ground. Like, my parents had to confiscate it and put it in attic, the whole thing.

I grew up playing the games, man, back when it was just Nintendos and Sega Genesis.

Truth is, I have been scared of birds since I was a little girl. I think it's genetic because my mom shares this fear with me.

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.

I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit, and finally, we ended up in Georgia.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to get married. I think because of the way I was brought up and seeing my parents in love.

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

When you get married and have your own family, it gives you the opportunity to look back on your own childhood I suppose, but you learn on the job really.

Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated, budding linguist who really inspired us. Some of the leading indicators of success in the world have to do with how many books are in the house when you're a kid.

The first ghost story I ever heard was from my mother.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses.

I learnt German as well as English, so by the time I was three my parents has already decided I was a gifted child.

I remember as a kid, my two brothers and I had to share gifts. We couldn't afford to have one for each of us. Today, when I buy a gift I have to buy for both my kids as I can't give something to only one of them.