Quotes About Childhood

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

I really do love the Muppets. My sister used to call them the Muffets. She'd be like, "Can we watch the Muffets?" So anything that reminds me of how adorable my sister was, I'm a big fan of.

My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.

My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

The future homemaker trains for her role within the home, but the boy prepares for his by being given more independence outside the home, by his taking a "paper route" or a summer job. A provider will profit by independence, dominance, aggressiveness, competitiveness.8

Ramona drummed harder to show everyone how bad she was. She would not take off her shoes. She was a terrible, wicked girl! Being such a bad, terrible, wicked girl made her feel good! She brought both heels against the wall at the same time. Thump! Thump! Thump! She was not the least bit sorry for what she was doing. She would never be sorry. Never! Never! Never!

Ramona could not understand why grown-ups always talked about how quickly children grew up. Ramona thought growing up was the slowest thing there was, slower even than waiting for Christmas to come. She had been waiting years just to get to kindergarten, and the last half hour was the slowest part of all.

She thought about Susan, who always acted big. In kindergarten there was no worse crime than acting big.

I'm not a pest," said Ramona indignantly, and to get even she stretched one of Susan's curls and whispered, "Boing!

Nothing infuriated Ramona more than having a grown-up say, as if she could not hear, that she was worn out.

As a child I very much objected to books that tried to teach me something. I just wanted to read for pleasure, and I did.

Nobody had to tell Ramona about disappointment.

Ramona was filled with the glory of losing her first tooth and love for her teacher. Miss Binney had said she was brave! This day was the most wonderful day in the world! The sun shone, the sky was blue, and Miss Binney loved her.

Don't eat so noisily. My grandmother used to say, 'A smack at the table is worth a smack on the bottom.

IF YOU ARE EATING PEAS THINK OF ME BEFORE YOU SNEEZE Signed, Yard Ape PRESIDENT

Willa Jean, pleased to have her grandmother on her side, set a red checker on top of a black checker. "Your turn," she said to Ramona as if she were being generous.

She had lost interest in crayoning.

She's playing she's waiting for a bus," explained Beezus. Henry groaned. It was the dumbest game he had ever heard of.