Quotes About Childhood

It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Race differences show up early in life.

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

He got the crib, so for the first few months of my life I had to sleep in the top dresser drawer, which I'm pretty sure isn't even legal.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of.

The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!

My son, Edward, at 4, to a neighbor boy who was being a pain in our backyard: "Oh, don't whine. my mom will throw you right out of here.

My son hit his head on a couch and pushed it away. He never went near that couch again. It is amazing what and 1 year old boy can teach you about life.

Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.