Quotes About Childhood

The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.