Quotes About Childhood

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.

When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.