Quotes About Childhood

A lot of people don't know, when I was a young kid, I couldn't stand when the teacher would call on me to read something, especially out loud.

I was taught some very good life lessons and morals as a young kid growing up.

I saw a lot of stuff growing up as a young kid that I don't want my kids seeing.

Jason and the Argonauts' is the very first movie that I ever remember watching. My parents were living in New York and I was a very young kid. And I remember being in front of my TV all alone watching skeletons fighting with swords. For me it was magic.

When I was just a young kid who grew up in the inner city of Cleveland, I used to catch the bus downtown to grab a dollar hot dog at Public Square.

Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children's hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission.

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look angry. They reason that it is due to some suppression in my childhood. But, it's just that I can't help it; it's in my genes.

My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.

As a child I liked to watch movies. As a young man I wanted to work in films.

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.

I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

Growing up, when I'd throw out the trash, I'd toss it and dart because all the cats would come running. That's why I still don't like cats.

Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.'

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.