Quotes About Childhood

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

Don't make your kids look hot and dirty and sexy when they're 5-years old! It's really not the place or the time. You're about 11 years early.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

She knew that from childhood playmates grew beaux in later years, and the first duty of a girl was to get married. She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

Somehow this change was even scarier than all the people downstairs, because Jordan could have an identical twin; there could be kids who looked like his parents' childhood pictures. The bunk beds were impossible.

Something surprising occurred to Finn. Are you all scared? he asked. Just because you don't know where the spinning room took us? Does it scare you that much when you don't know stuff? He jumped up to the next higher step. You should all remember what it's like to be a second grader. There's lots of stuff I don't know or understand, and I'm fine.

Real isn't how you are made, said the Skin Horse. It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real. Does it hurt? asked the Rabbit. Sometimes, said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.

L´homme se croit un héros, toujours comme l´enfant. L´homme aime la guerre, la chasse, la pêche, les motos, les autos, comme l´enfant. Quand il dort, ca se voit, et on aime les hommes comme ca, les femmes. Il ne faut passe mentir là-dessus. On aime les hommes innocents, cruels, on aime les chasseurs, les guerriers, on aime les enfants.

El amor (perdóname) es un sentimiento que no he vuelto a experimentar desde entonces; se necesitan demasiadas virtudes para ser capaz de amar; me extraña que en mi infancia haya podido creer en un pasión tan vana, casi siempre engañosa y que no es necesaria ni siquiera para la voluptuosidad.