Quotes About Childhood

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

My grandmother took me to a play, and... there was a little girl on stage. And as soon as I saw her on stage, I thought, 'This is my job'... I was probably, like, 7 or 8. I was very young... It was 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'.

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald.

I drove my mother crazy because I'd juggle the apples in the fruit bowl and take a bite out of one or two.

My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'

When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and I honestly started performing for my family when I was around three. I would jump up on the coffee table and I would get in the closet and ask that they introduce me to come out, and from that point on, my mother stuck me in dance class and children's theater.

I used to love jumping into the bushes in my back garden, thinking I was jumping into the crowd after I scored in front of the Holte End.

I have a scar on my forehead. I was three years old, jumping on the bed with my brothers, and I fell off and hit my head on the dresser and cut it open, went to the hospital, got stitches, came home, went back on the bed, jumped with my brothers, fell again, and reopened the stitches.

I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.

I remember my dad taking me to stand on the Kop at Wrexham to watch Dixie McNeil and Joey Jones, and jumping into his arms when they scored.

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

I grew up as this rather lonely European kid living in the east Malaysian jungle.

James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

My house always had all the junk food.

I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.