Quotes About Childhood

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

When we were kids, if somebody said, 'What did you watch last night?' you would have said, 'BBC Two,' but now they'll just say, 'My mobile.'

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

I look back at my childhood, and the films that I remember the most are things like 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.

As a kid I always had Lego and Mecchano, model sets.

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kids, and that was the extent of my modeling career as a kid. I took all of my elementary, middle and high school years off to focus on school and sports.

I did a bit of baby modeling. I loved it.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

I started learning dancing when I was three years old, and I started modelling when I was eleven years old.

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.

I was born in 1989. I literally watched 'Rocko's Modern Life' on live television.

I experienced different things growing up as a child that helped me. That helped mold me into the man that I am now, to the athlete that I am now.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

My mom and dad weren't married.

My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.