Quotes About Childhood

When you're a kid, you don't watch a movie one time. You watch it 10, 20 times.

In my own one-woman show, 'Feeling Good,' I talk about my childhood and write a letter to my younger self in the show. The most important thing I would tell her is to trust my instincts. Just trust them. They're little whispers from God, I think. You've heard it a million times, but it's true: Listen to that inner voice.

Ever since school, I got a lot of attention as I was modelling and everyone knew who I was. As a child, you enjoy it. But one has to explore and doing things by oneself to learn that life is very large.

A four-year-old should have no self-esteem, and for good reason. What could he have possibly accomplished in his life to justify esteeming oneself so highly?

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

My grandfather bought me my first Marvel comic book when I was six years old, and since then, it has been an ongoing love. It was an 'X-Men' comic book.

I think for me, growing up as an only child, I didn't have a lot of people around me or a lot of foreign influences, so growing up, I really kind of got lost in my imagination - for the better.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

I've always wanted a family since I was a little girl - a big family. I'm an only child, so I wanted, like, 10 kids... for sure.

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

An only child, I always wanted a large hug-house.

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.

I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

I was fortunate that I was an only child. I had two parents who I really cared about, and they cared about me, so I got off to a good start.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

Life as an only child can be a bit lonely, and when I had Finley, I decided that if I could give him a big family, I wanted to as much as possible.

I was an only child.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.