Quotes About Childhood

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.

I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.