Quotes About Childhood

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.