Quotes About Childhood

I am a Tintin girl and grew up on Archie comics. Then I was introduced to Mr. Bean.

My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.

I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.

My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house.

Learning to meditate is one of my earliest memories. I started when I was maybe three or four. I mean, I didn't know I was meditating. I just thought it was a weird game my dad had invented.

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid... I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.

I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that's such an important idea.

My imagination was really hyperactive as a child and animated. I had those elements, but as you live and go through the hardships, it fades. 'Pete's Dragon' reawakened that. It rekindled the feeling of the invisible dragon.

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

I was absolutely honored to be invited to the Kremlin. It has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid.

When you put a camera in your kid's bedroom, you're literally inviting the entire connected world, the entire Internet into your child's safe space, if you will.

I remember the first time that I realized that being black meant that I wasn't allowed certain things. It was in the fourth grade, and it was who I thought was my best friend not inviting me to his birthday party because I would be the only black kid there. It was the first time I ever felt restricted, and it certainly wasn't the last time.

Call Me On The Ouija Board' is homage not just to horror movies involving children, but my favorites as a child.

Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire.

I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.

I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little people.' When I went into the forest I used to look for them.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

I had quite a scattered childhood. I was Irish in London, because I had my secondary school education there. I never really fitted anywhere. I didn't feel it was a negative thing, and I was never made to feel different - I just knew I was.