Explore Quotes on Childhood

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

One of the blessings of my childhood was being a fighter and a scrapper, but being a fighter and a scrapper is a curse, too.

With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.

I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.

I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.

The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.

I remember my first Champions League final in 1996: Juventus-Ajax. That's the clearest memory from my childhood.

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

I think mostly music just felt good because my parents gave me a real good childhood so I was rarely sad.

My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another.

I have been a Salman Khan fan since childhood and I have grown up watching his films.

I have been to Golden Temple couple of times now. I feel calm and at peace when I am there. It's a very special place for me because I have a lot of childhood memories with my family there.

I had a happy childhood in the suburbs of L.A. My parents instilled in us an appreciation of history, art and, most important, Motown. Jarron and I weren't allowed to listen to rap until we were 12. After our birthday I dashed to Target and bought DJ Quik's album 'Quik Is the Name.' I memorized every line.

I found my childhood scrapbook and there's an interview in there with dad from 1970. He talks about how long he's been playing the drums and he'd only been playing drums six years in 1970.

I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest in aviation and aerospace, and I just started flying.

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.