Quotes About Childhood

I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.

I grew up all over the South. My dad just kind of followed construction.

I've lived a real charmed life. I'm just one of those knuckleheads who literally can't remember a season of his life that he didn't enjoy. I was a happy kid.

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing - and being a kid of the '80s - that's just something that's in your experience.

I grew up in a household where we watched a lot of comedy. It's just something I've always enjoyed.

The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

I've always loved music and was singing from the age of seven on karaoke.

When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.

My dad took us to a couple of karate classes when we were young but we didn't really get into it.

As a kid, since I was born in Kashmir, I have been to the Amarnath caves.

My parents loved comedies, so we saw Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers, and the Marx Brothers. I wanted to be one of them.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading.

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.

I was always a big Ken Griffey Jr. fan growing up.

I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.

John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.

I've been obsessed with the Kennedys since I was a child, and Bobby Kennedy is, hands down, my favorite among them.