Quotes About Childhood

I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.

I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.

My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

I was one of those kids who ate everyone's school dinners. They used to call me 'Pig of The Year.'

Matt Leinart's L.A. duplex looks more like a Chuck E. Cheese safe house than a millionaire jock's crash pad. There's the requisite leather couch and flat-screen television, but the rest of the ground floor is bare except for a pile of Nick Jr. DVDs, a high chair, and a SpongeBob SquarePants director's chair.

I'm one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.

I built a fort when I was little, with pillows and blankets.

I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

I used to have a bright pink, shiny bubble jacket when I was young. My mum made me wear it.

I was a really girly girl when I was younger. I only wore pink until I was at least 12. Think of me in culottes with a Bagpuss T-shirt and frizzy hair. Oh, and I was a fat child. It was bad news.

My childhood dream was to work with Mr Bachchan and 'Pink' fulfilled that.

It drove me mad not being able to know more about Pink Floyd when I was a little kid. But that's the great thing - there was this mystery behind it, and we couldn't find out enough. It made your mind work, it made you seek after it or try to interpret it. It made you envision or imagine what they were doing.

Of course, watching 'Stand By Me' is, to me, the pinnacle of child performances in movies or shows. It doesn't get much better than that, and those kids, you feel like you know them instantly and they feel real.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.

The first movie I ever saw in the cinema was Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio,' upon its 1984 re-release, which would have put me at three years old.

My father when I was a kid was so deeply involved with Native Americans, he used to bring home these extraordinary headdresses and pipes.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.