My Childhood Quotes

I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
- Douglas Adams

But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
- Douglas Adams

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
- Kate Adie

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
- Josef Albers

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.
- Paulo Coelho

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
- Jodi Picoult

I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
- Nicole Krauss

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
- Jonathan Ames

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.
- Hermann Hesse

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.
- Dido Armstrong

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.
- Dido Armstrong

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.
- Margaret Atwood

Sifting through long forgotten stories of my childhood and writing on a daily basis, I became obsessed with following the threads of my memories, one leading to another. I start pulling on a single, seemingly trivial strand, only to discover it is attached to a longer strand; that one in turn is attached to an even bigger one. Sometimes, I find have tugged a whole, hidden tapestry of my past into view, one thread at a time.
- Alice Bag

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
- Ann Bancroft

If wishes were horses, I'd have been run over in my childhood.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

My mother was a royal virgin," Peterson said, "and my father a shower of gold. My childhood was pastoral and energetic and rich in experiences which developed my character. As a young man I was noble in reason, infinite in faculty, in form express and admirable, and in apprehension..." Peterson went on and on and although he was, in a sense, lying, in a sense he was not.
- Donald Barthelme

I have changed refuge so often, in the course of my rout, that now I can't tell between dens and ruins. But there was never any city but the one. It is true you often move along in a dream, houses and factories darken the air, trams go by and under your feet wet from the grass there are suddenly cobbles. I only know the city of my childhood, I must have seen the other, but unbelieving. All I say cancels out, I'll have said nothing.
- Samuel Beckett

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live..
- John Steinbeck

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
- Roberto Benigni

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
- Chester Bennington

She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
- Holly Black

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
- Orlando Bloom

Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.
Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.
- Richard Brautigan

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
- Donna Brazile

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.
- Nicholas Brendon

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
- Susie Bright

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
- Poppy Z Brite

I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It's still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I'm fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing there's one thing I haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.
- Nicholas Sparks

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
- Augusten Burroughs

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.
- Columba Bush

My childhood was appalling.
- Taylor Caldwell

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
- Truman Capote

I don't know, Pepper. I have large chunks of my childhood missing thanks to her and her Benadryl supply.
- Mercy Celeste

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.
- Michael Chabon

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
- Bill Cosby

I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.
- Billy Ray Chitwood

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
- Pat Conroy

My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.
- Pat Conroy

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.
- Julian Cope

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?
- Lorna Crozier

i didn't need a timequake to teach me being alive was a crock of shit. i already knew that from my childhood and crucifixes and history books.
- Kurt Vonnegut

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
- Rebecca Harding Davis

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
- Kate Dicamillo

In fact I no longer value this kind of memento.
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
There was a period, a long period, dating from my childhood until quite recently, when I thought I did.
A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their "things," their totems.
- Joan Didion

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
- Ronnie James Dio

It is curious that this man who, even in my childhood, made such an impression upon me, who had such a crucial influence on the whole bent of my mind, and who perhaps has even cast his shadow over the whole of my future, still remains, even now, a complete enigma to me in many respects.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Because the golden egg gleamed
in my basket once, though my childhood
became an immense sheet of darkening water
I was Noah, and I was his ark,
and there were two of every animal inside me
- Mark Doty

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.
- Michel De Montaigne

I suppose the Valley of the Na, in Always Coming Home, is where I think I'd most like to live; but that's partly because I did live there, all the summers of my childhood.
- Ursula K Le Guin

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.
- Gerald Durrell

Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?
- Annie Ernaux

The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.
- Jeffrey Eugenides

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
- Faith Evans

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
- Garrison Keillor

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.
- Roger Federer

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
- Corey Feldman

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.
- Tom Felton

He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. "These fashions have come round again," he said, "old things are all the rage, and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my childhood,
- Victor Hugo

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.
- Dave Foley

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.
- Lukas Foss

I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.
- Megan Fox

Over the balustrade I could see the dark trees of Webster Groves and the more distant TV-tower lights that marked the boundaries of my childhood. A night wind coming across the football practice field carried the smell of thawed winter earth, the great sorrowful world-smell of being alive beneath a sky.
- Jonathan Franzen

It's harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone's arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.
- Robert Fulghum

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.
- Jean Paul Gaultier

And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
- Jami Gertz

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
- Gunter Grass

My conscious self would do anything to avoid people with cheating tendencies, but my subconscious keeps trying to recreate home and keeps bringing me back to people who recreate my childhood.
- Jane Green

In some ways, I don't feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I've tried to ignore that part of me, I've gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.
- Shannon Hale

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.
- Mohsin Hamid

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
- Jon Heder

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
- Hugh Hefner

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
- Herman Hesse

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
- Laura Hillenbrand

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
- Paris Hilton

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
- Anthony Hopkins

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
- Alan Hovhaness

I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.
- Kazuo Ishiguro

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart
Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?
- Michael Jackson

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
- Peter Jackson

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.
- Rickie Lee Jones

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
- Peter Jurasik

I carry all of my childhood memories in my mind. But maybe that's not the best place for them. Well, you've got some extra space in your closet. Do you think I could store them there?
- Jarod Kintz

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.
- Mindy Kaling

It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never be able to go back to that time that makes me cry every time I listen to it.
- Mindy Kaling

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
- Thomas Keller

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
- Deforest Kelley

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
- Anselm Kiefer

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
- Greg Kinnear

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.
- Dean Koontz

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.
- Kristin Kreuk

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
- Satish Kumar

My childhood ended that summer. I learned the word murder. But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that...You have to live with it, carry it around with you. You have to...see it from different angles, at different times of day, in different light, until you understand, until it enters you.
- William Landay

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
- Robert B Laughlin

I gave up my childhood for a career.
- Brenda Lee

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
- Sergio Leone

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
- Robert Jay Lifton

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
- Franz Liszt

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.
- Dave Lombardo

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
- Lorna Luft

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.
- Shelby Lynne

Watching Joel sip his iced tea and listen to stories of my childhood, the ones my mom told at all of the family gatherings, I felt my heart warm. He'd been there too. And as she spoke in scattered memory he was probably filling in the small details that had been lost and forgotten in time by everyone else.
- Shawn Kirsten Maravel

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
- Yann Martel

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
- Steve Martin

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.
- Evelyn Waugh

I've never outgrown my childhood.
- David Mccallum

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
- Frank Mccourt

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
- Frank Mccourt

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.
- Ian Mcewan

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.
- Jon Meacham

If Edna St. Vincent Millay was right and childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies, then my childhood ended when I was fifteen.
- Katja Millay

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.
- Greg Mortenson

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
- Samantha Morton

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
- Edvard Munch

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
- Brigitte Nielsen

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.
- Audrey Niffenegger

I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading - trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love. -The Night Bookmobile
- Audrey Niffenegger

Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.
- Audrey Niffenegger

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.
- Stewart O Nan

I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life.
- Joyce Carol Oates

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
- Hakeem Olajuwon

As in many other cities, money no longer had any value in Istanbul. At the time I returned from the East, bakeries that once sold large one-hundred drachma loaves of bread for one silver coin now baked loaves half the size for the same price, and they no longer tasted the way they did during my childhood.
- Orhan Pamuk

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
- Vanessa Paradis

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.
- Simon Pegg

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
- Tyler Perry

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
- Fernando Pessoa

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
- Sydney Pollack

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
- Eleanor Porter

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.
- Bonnie Raitt

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
- Oscar De La Renta

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.
- Paul Reubens

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.
- Richard Rhodes

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
- Philip Roth

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.
- Shan Sa

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
- Leverett Saltonstall

He had a collection of science-fiction films on DVD and Blu-ray discs, and although he said he'd seen most of them before, Caitlin was surprised to discover how many of the cases were still shrink-wrapped. "Why'd you buy them if you weren't going to watch them?" she asked. He looked at the tall, thin cabinets that contained the movies and seemed to ponder the question. "My childhood was on sale," he said at last, "so I bought it.
- Robert J Sawyer

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
- Gerald Scarfe

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
- Friedrich Schiller

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
- Wally Schirra

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
- Barbet Schroeder

Should I tell you that my room is walled up?...In what way might I leave it? Here is how: Goodwill knows no obstacle; nothing can stand before deep desire. I have only to imagine a door, a door old and good, like in the kitchen of my childhood, with an iron latch and bolt. There is no room so walled up that it will not open with such a trusty door, if you have but the strength to insinuate it.
- Bruno Schulz

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]
- Dani Shapiro

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
- Richard Simmons

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.
- Patti Smith

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
- Patti Smith

I got through my childhood in a delirium of literary exaltations.
- Susan Sontag

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
- Rachel Stevens

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
- Patrick Stewart

Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.
- Curtis Stone

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
- Eric Stonestreet

my childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.
- Igor Stravinsky

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.
- Audrey Tautou

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
- Valentina Tereshkova

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.
- Liv Tyler

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
- Robert Vaughn

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
- Tim Vine

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
- Ethel Waters

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.
- Lee Westwood

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.
- Wil Wheaton

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
- Andrew Wiles

I could not separate the Bird Refuge from my family. Devastation respects no boundaries. The landscape of my childhood and the landscape of my family, the two things I had always regarded as bedrock, were now subject to change. Quicksand.
- Terry Tempest Williams

I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.
- Eric Wilson

Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward.
- Stefan Zweig