Quotes About Childhood

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

I have a ton of cousins on my moms side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing.

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.