Quotes About Childhood

And oddly, when I was a kid I used to look at junkyards and I wanted to have one of my own.

I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and then New York. But I've been to enough places to have gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and rich culture of all of Rhode Island. I am grateful for all that it offered during my childhood.

Enacting the role of an investigative officer was like living my childhood dream!

I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.

My favorite color is jungle green. At least, that's what it said on the side of my favorite crayon in first grade. I don't know if it's an official color.

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, 'Oh, I have this comic book here.' It wasn't like I was collecting them.

The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'

We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!'

When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

I loved growing up in Ohio.

I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.

For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very comforting.

Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.

At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.

The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody.

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, where I wrestled and played baseball.

I was singing from the time I was 6 years old - at banquets and school shows back in Oklahoma.