Quotes About Childhood

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.

I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.