Quotes About Childhood

Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or any of these places which other novelists are able to write about in relation to their childhoods.

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had a pretty bizarre, I guess, nomadic childhood, and so I was really drawn to international relations and political science.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

As a child, I grew up in fear. When I was four, all my other relatives were deported to the countryside, having to leave most of their personal belongings behind.

I was a handful as a kid. I get bored easily. Now I'm pretty chill compared to back then. When I'm on the road, I watch Netflix and, at home, relax or fish.

When I used to watch TV when I was young, it was a fun space which helped us relax and de-stress.

My parents were very relaxed about music.

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.

My dad was an early hip-hop fan.

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

When I was little, I used to listen to Lauryn Hill, so that's that hip-hop and R&B influence in me.

As a child I ate all sorts of veg because my mother was a hippie and grew them all and made our clothes.

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

My parents were hippies.