Quotes About Childhood

I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.

My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

When I was a kid I went and saw Bill Cosby with my dad, and I remember sitting there and laughing so hard.

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.

I want to be present for my kids, and my biological father wasn't present for me.

I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I was 14.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn't think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

My 3rd birthday party was 'Funny Girl' themed.

My dad would be down at the social club and my mum would be looking after us. Their time out together was limited to birthdays and, particularly being Scottish, to Hogmanay and Christmas.

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One less thing to worry about.

I've been dreaming to do sci-fi since I was 10 years old, and I said 'no' to a lot of sequels - I couldn't say 'no' to 'Blade Runner.'

I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.

I sleep with my baby blanket, Kiki, that my nana made for me.

I saw this Facebook video of a boy, probably around seven, wearing a dress he had fashioned from a blanket, sashaying through his house while his mother applauded and cheered him on. He was so proud. It was such a beautiful thing but bittersweet because I knew his spirit would change soon: that he'd become self-aware and ashamed at some level.

I still sleep with my baby blanket.

As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.

When I was young you raced from one end of the street to the other, or round the block.