Quotes About Childhood

My first club was FT Gern. I joined through my parents and friends. My father played for them and a friend from nursery school took me to training once. I was five at the time.

When I was born, my mother said all the nurses wanted to come see the colored baby.

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

The child in each of us must be nurtured - that often makes us the best.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.

Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.

I remember Jerry Lewis said once that when small, he was the nutty kid in his neighborhood and I was the same way.

It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

I grew up listening to Oasis and The Verve; English music was huge in my house.

We didn't have nine brands of cereal at home. We'd line up to fill our bowls from a giant vat of oatmeal.

Alia was a very obedient child. The only thing she was fussy about was what dress she wore. I would have to give her choices, and she would pick her dress out knowing very well exactly what she wanted to wear.

My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

I was the kid who was sat in his room, trying to move objects across the room with my eyes or my mind.

If you're going to accomplish all those great things out in space, all that progress, then you have an obligation to do some considerable good here on Earth, like making sure you conquer childhood cancer along the way.

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

My mom used to call me Bliv - as in oblivious.

My parents had no interest in spending a lot of time with me. They were busy doing what they were doing, but they were not obnoxious. They were fabulous.

I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.