Quotes About Childhood

I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

If you're going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

I've often carried a crayon in my shirt pocket. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and I take another hit.

My dad, a pretty able woodworker, made me that bed. The smile on that kid's face, the wood slat, the look in his eyes: that photo reminds me that I won the parent lottery.

One rule in our house is that you may not ask one-word questions. Dylan embraces that idea. He loves to formulate full-sentence questions, and his inquisitiveness goes beyond his years.

I don't know how many more times I will get to visit my childhood home. But it is a gift every time I go there. I still sleep in that bunk bed my father built, I look at those crazy walls, I think about my parents allowing me to paint, and I fall asleep feeling lucky and pleased.

Whatever my accomplishments, all of things I loved were rooted in the dreams and goals I had as a child ... and in the ways I had managed to fulfill almost all of them. My uniqueness, I realized, came in the specifics of all the dreams -from incredibly meaningful to decidedly quirky- that defined my 46 years of life.

They hated children as they hated themselves; they beat them for their own good, and educated them from the perspective of their own incapacity to love life.

Et comment instruirait-il les enfants qu'il a devant lui, l'éducateur qui n'est même plus capable de redevenir enfant en renaissant chaque jour à lui-même? Celui qui porte dans son cœur le cadavre de son enfance n'éduquera jamais que des âmes mortes.

I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

For cripes sake, have you ever heard of 'Ready or not? Here I come'?" Retro or not, cheesy is cheesy." Sometimes what you learned from beer commercials comes in real handy.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Nowadays they say you need to get a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

Los niños no tiene nada de mágico, la mayoría de las veces, son la misma mierda en dimensiones reducidas

Before my mother would give you that dime allowance, she'd want you to do a little chore around the house. Like build a porch.

I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn't have time to drive me there, and we didn't have a school bus or whatever.

I think as a kid, you just want to be accepted by the people around you and largely I was.

I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

I'm lucky that I was born to these parents. I'm lucky that my dad wanted to be around me, that he took me to all these National League cities by the time I was 12.

I didn't have cable growing up. I never saw ESPN or GameDay.