Quotes About Childhood

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.

I had good parents. Two older brothers, bit of a handful between us, all got ginger hair, a bit fiery. I remember a very happy childhood.

I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

I had a very happy childhood.

It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.

I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.

I had a happy childhood, I didn't know about money then.

I had a really happy childhood.

People say child stars have a hard time 'because of the entertainment business,' but I think there's a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, 'If you're a fool without money, you'll be a fool with money.'

I grew up in Northumberland, a happy child in a loving, hard-working family.

The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough.

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

I had a paper route at eight years old in Harlem.

Growing up, it was just me and my mom, so we would play games where we'd listen to the radio and sing harmonies to each other.

I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

I was actually a big Owen Hart fan, but I wasn't a Bret Hart fan at all growing up.

When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books.

Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.