Quotes About Childhood

I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

When I was a kid, we used to play 'Madden' and 'NCAA Football' all the time. I have two brothers, so we grew up on these games.

Madonna was my favorite when I was a little kid.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

I'd say probably Dale Earnhardt was the biggest autograph I got when I was a kid, mainly because it was so hard to get it. His lines were way longer and it nearly took an act of God to get his autograph.

When I was a kid I mainly listened to comedy albums.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed.

I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

My mother had always been a working woman and so she would drop me to my mama's house everyday for the whole day since it was close by.

I've had alopecia since I was 3, so quite a few years. I grew up with it, and it was always very manageable.

For me, ever since I was a kid, it was a dream playing for Manchester United.

I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any English, and I had dyslexia, so it took me many years before I could read.

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.

I remember watching the first Million Man March as a kid, and I always knew that if I got a chance to go to one, I would go.

Mariah Carey was the first singer I ever listened to.

I love me some Mariah Carey. I grew up on that because of my mother.

Super Mario RPG was one of my very favorite games when I was a kid.

The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.