Quotes About Childhood

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.

All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.

I was an energetic child, always walking on my hands, flipping off of the back of the couch, or jumping up and down on my bed.

I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn't really skating up and down the street.

My earliest memories are listening to my Grandmother playing the piano at our house as I jumped up and down on the couch. She was a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony in the 30s and 40s, and was a huge influence on me.

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

When I was growing up, I idolised my father. I thought his ghost followed me around the house. I had been told how he adored me, how I was funny, just like him. Because of our lovely Catholic upbringing, I secretly assumed that he would eventually come back, like our good friend Jesus.

I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn't enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing.

I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and a childhood where my parents, of course, exposed us to many cultural aspects, not only of India but other parts of the world.

I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.