Quotes About Childhood

What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.

My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,' 'Claudia, you must not answer back like that.' Argument, of course, is the whole point of history. Disagreement; my word against yours; this evidence against that. If there were such a thing as absolute truth the debate would lose its lustre. I, for one, would no longer be interested.

Reading fiction, I see through the prism of another person's understanding; reading everything else, I am travelling--I am travelling in the way that I still can: new sights, new experiences. I am reminded sometimes of the intensity of childhood reading, that absolute absorption when the very ability to read was a heady new gain, the gateway to a different place, to a parallel universe you hadn't known was there. The one entirely benign mind-altering drug.

Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost and can never recover. We do not remember childhood – we imagine it. We search for it, in vain, through layers of obscuring dust, and recover some bedraggled shreds of what we think it was. And all the while the inhabitants of this world are among us, like aborigines, like Minoans, people from elsewhere safe in their own time-capsule. I

The blizzard of baffling and confusing instructions and information that falls upon every child everywhere assumes a Carrollian texture.

Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost and can never recover. We do not remember childhood – we imagine it. We search for it, in vain, through layers of obscuring dust, and recover some bedraggled shreds of what we think it was. And all the while the inhabitants of this world are among us, like aborigines, like Minoans, people from elsewhere safe in their own time-capsule.

Less than half of children born under these conditions survived to their fifth birthday. Some authorities were concerned, not because of the appallingly high infant mortality rate but because these children died "before they can be engaged in factory labor, or in any other labor whatsoever.

Para ti todos os homens são maus? Só as crianças são boas? - Sim. - Então eu também sou maus? - Não - disse Ngnunga- O camarada Professor é capaz de ser ainda um bocado criança, não sei.