Quotes About Childhood

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

When you're a child actor, part of you grows up really fast and part of you doesn't grow up at all.

I feel like I've been guarded since I was about three years old. I don't know why. I come from such a huge family, so maybe it's that. Maybe it comes from going to Christmas and having 30 people all in your face at once. I've always been a bit like, 'Aaargh!'

I wouldn't say I had a hard childhood because my mom always made sure we was Gucci, you know what I mean. Growing up, she made sure we ain't have to want for nothing. She did what she had to do; she made her money, and we was always good.

My first role in catering was front-of-house, at five or six, at my parents' restaurant in Leicester. Me and my brother were dressed in tuxedos and we'd greet guests and be paraded around like show ponies.

I was the world's worst Brownie and Girl Guide and I never did camping.

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this.

I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.

I was so gullible as a kid.

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up.

My brother and I used to laugh and say, 'Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.'

I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

I was a gymnast as a little girl.

I wanted to be a gymnast when I was young - I used to do backflips and all those things in the street and at home - but my grandma said it was dangerous and made me stop.

It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

When I was growing up, there wasn't too much technology. There weren't so many channels that we were glued to on TV. We had to go outside and create our games. Kids had the habit of being active and exercising, just enjoying the fresh air.

I grew up always having dessert after dinner. Always. It's such a hard habit for me to break. It's fine to have dessert every once in a while, but not seven days a week!

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

As a kid, I didn't have a shower at home, and I was used to taking bucket baths, so I went back to that old habit.

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.