“I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers” ChildrenMotherMemoriesChildhoodStageGrewGrew UpMy FamilyBusyScreensMy ChildrenPerformersMy SisterGreat Women Author:John Travolta
“When I was a kid people always asked why I didn't act like the rest of my family, and parents would say, "Well, she needs a childhood! We would never allow her to do that even if she wanted to". They were as involved in my life as any parents are in any person's life.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsPersonsKidsWantedParentChildhoodInvolvedMy Family Author:Blake Lively
“Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.” ThinkingMadeSometimesKidsBitsChildhoodMy FamilyUncomfortable Author:Tracy Letts
“Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.” BrainHalfChildhoodMy FamilyArmyRaisedPostsSplitsNavyOther Half Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.” WorldWarHardYoungFoundHouseParentBornChildhoodBirthCoupleMarriedBuiltMy FamilyMovedBlockParisWar Of The WorldsFlatsApartmentSuburbsSecond World WarMarried Couples Author:Richard Clayderman
“Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.” CareersComedyInfluenceChildhoodMy FamilyLondonForged Author:Alice Lowe
“That's what actually caused me to run for office is, you know, my family story, the experience of growing up in a family where your dad had been imprisoned, had been tortured, and came to America with nothing, washing dishes for 50 cents an hour. That was perhaps the most formative experience of my childhood, is being raised in that household where freedom had an urgency.” KnowsStoriesRunningAmericaHoursGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodDadOfficeMy FamilyRaisedCentsHouseholdDishesWashingUrgencyYour DadWashing Dishes Author:Ted Cruz
“I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my family moved to what they joke is the suburbs, the Upper West Side. I lived there for most of my childhood.” ChildhoodJokesMy FamilyMoved Author:Peter Vack
“Throughout my childhood, I had served as an interpreter for my family. When I left home, I also left the Deaf community. I'd had enough of being a de facto intermediary and wanted to find my own identity. But, over time, I learned to embrace both cultures and find balance between them. I love my Deaf and CODA family and hope they would be proud to call me one of their own.” EnoughHomeCultureCommunityChildhoodIdentityProudBalanceMy FamilyEmbraceCall MeBe ProudDeafInterpreter Author:Kambri Crews
“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.” LittlesSchoolParentChildhoodMy FamilyGuitarCampsDragHobbiesPlaying Guitar Author:Bonnie Raitt
“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.” ThinkingYearsHumansLooksFeltRaceFiveFourChildhoodPlanetsMembersComfortableMy FamilyAliensHuman RaceFive YearsTallSkinnyDisconnectedFive Year Olds Author:Patti Smith
“The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.” EndsFeltChildhoodTruth IsAdultsMy FamilyIndependenceExistentialSurvivedUnreliable Book:My Beloved World Source: My Beloved World
“My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.” FirstsPersonsSchoolSocialPoorChildhoodCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolMy FamilyPreparedSouthPsychologistGhettoFirst PersonEarly ChildhoodBronxSicilianPoor Family Author:Philip Zimbardo
“I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.” KnowsStillsMatterKidsTogetherHappenedChildhoodDespairMy FamilyNo Matter WhatFoundationSeriesIllVariousDivorceOddArrangementsRippedBack TogetherDeprivationRemnantsSolid FoundationRemarriage Author:Bill Bryson