Quotes About Childhood

Money is rarely just money. Sometimes it stands in for love or self-esteem or freedom or a sense of control over your destiny (especially if you lacked these things in childhood).

I first met Michael in the early days of the Jackson 5 at the family home in Los Angeles, and the memory that stands out is that Michael, as cute and wide-eyed as an 11-year-old could be, was eager to get through the interview so he could watch cartoons before having to go to bed.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.

Every man at three years old is half his height

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

In psychotherapy it's common to think that problems begin at a certain point in life as a result of certain situations, and that the particular time and situation must be dealt with in order to remove the problems. This may be so for particular problems, but suffering begins long before childhood, long before birth. No matter how perfect the childhood, everyone will still have problems.