Quotes About Childhood

I don't like working with people I don't know. (Randy) Hmmm, let's see…I cried when Ole Yeller died, but I was young back then. I have a scar on my knee from when Willie Durante knocked me off my bike when I was seven. I beat the shit out of him later, then took his bike and sold it at a pawnshop. Oh, and my favorite color is pink…it's really soothing. (Steele)

If wishes were horses, I'd have been run over in my childhood.

Oh, I remember how beautiful you were. You didn't have any hair. You were such a bald little booger, I thought I was going to have to save up to buy you a toupee.

Trust me, Joe. You're not a cowboy. The only cows you ever saw as a kid came under a plastic wrap in the grocery store or in a paper wrapped from McDonald's. (Tee)

In true Bastien form—and keeping in mind that he's only seven at the time—he yanks off his helmet, throws his backpack down, and lies on the ground, using the helmet for a pillow, and says to them, and I quote verbatim, 'Later, bitches. I'm done for the day. Y'all can carry me home or call for a lift. Either way, I ain't moving from here. My ass is too precious for this abuse.

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.

You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

Life is the childhood of immortality.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's the raddest human being ever.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.

The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.