Quotes About Childhood

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

I loved Jackie Chan growing up, watching mostly his Hong Kong film work.

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.

I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up.

To get to the only club in my area you had to cross a really busy road and my mother forbade me from going there.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

As a child, I would attend shakhas, and the discipline and love for the motherland it instilled in me has helped immensely.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

I think that's something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that's one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

I have always joked that I have three mothers. I couldn't get away with anything as a kid. Whether I got a bad mark or was told off, it would always end up getting back to my parents.

Most people's problems start as children when their parents, especially mothers, cause them to become angry.

When I was younger, I always saw my friends with their mothers and fathers and felt a little jealous of them for having a father close by.

Mad World' was easy for me to sing because I could relate to Roland's lyrics. We were both the middle of three sons and had been brought up by single mothers with absent fathers.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'

Music and motorcycles was my thing when I was a kid.

My dad was a trained carpenter and worked for Vauxhall Motors. We had money, though not a great deal.

My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the radio really.

I grew up in one of those households where, growing up in Detroit, you gravitate towards music and cars because we were the capital for a long time. Especially during my childhood. We were the Motown sound. We were the Motor City.