Quotes About Childhood

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

Adults are just children who earn money.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

Nobody in my family ever surfed, but they would always bring me to the beach.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.