Quotes About Childhood

My parents were fantastic. I was an only child, so I had a lot of love and too much attention. I don't think I was spoilt. My mother was quite a disciplinarian, but I did have a lot of attention and quite a lot of pressure to do well at whatever I was doing.

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.

But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.

I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time.

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

I never spoke out as a kid, I was never good at it as a kid, I was always too shy but I think I have a story and would like to be good at it and tell my story.

When I was little, my mum would take me to see the orchestra, tell me to close my eyes and think about the story the music was telling. I always spoke about colours. I'd talk about how purple the oboe was.

Growing up, I'd heard so much about Barbados. It was where my parents spent their honeymoon and they also spoke about the time they took me when I was three years old.

My mom was real loud and that made me speak only when spoken to. But even as a child, if you challenged me, you would get both barrels.

My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so instead of books, I learned spoken French nursery rhymes and curse words.

When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.