Quotes About Childhood

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid, where everything is carefree and fun.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.