Quotes About Childhood

You're always a kid around your parents… Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.

My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house.

Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.

Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth, see my two front teeth!

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn't real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.

Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.