Quotes About Childhood

I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.

I was on a cruise with my grandma when I was a kid. I remember winning $10 on the slot machine.

I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

I was a slow and lazy reader as a kid. 'The Prince and the Pauper' was the only non-school book I would read, over and over, between television, records and radio, until I picked up my aunt's copy of 'In Cold Blood' and she didn't ask for it back.

I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.

Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.

There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.

I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.

My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.

My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies.

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

I grew up in the small town of Haywards Heath, south of London.

I'm a kid who grew up in a small town and started acting when he was seven for no reason and got lucky. Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming. I feel like some people, especially child stars, act out because they don't know how to handle the pressure.

I grew up in a small town.

I grew up in a small town, I was the only redhead other than my brother.

I grew up in a really small town.

I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town.