Quotes About Childhood

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code.

For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!

I feel like little kids should and do steal money. That is a major part of being a young child.

I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

Most little children's obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed!

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money. That was my reality.

I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.

If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?

When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.'

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'