“I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.” HomeKidsChildhoodNew YorkGrewGrew UpSickAsthmaSick Kids Author:Josh Peck
“All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.” FeelingsRealityKidsToo MuchChildhoodDirectorsContactFreakObsessiveControl Freak Author:Stellan Skarsgard
“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.” IfsChildrenHardHelpingKidsHouseChildhoodEmotionalLuckyOur ChildrenLegacyRememberedYour ChildrenDistinctionLucky You Author:Ayelet Waldman
“When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.” WorldKindFeelingsKidsUsedChildhoodPerceptionHungChaoticHallucinationsApparitionsPerception Of The World Author:Jim Woodring
“I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.” KidsMotherNamesHellChildhoodInfatuationCuban Author:Yul Vazquez
“This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.” BookIdeasKidsChildhoodTraditionRegardClassicChasingThis Is A BookVermeer Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.” DoneDreamKidsAbleGuySportsCareersToo MuchOne ThingChildhoodDadHandleThrillDreams Come TrueBoyhoodHull Author:Bobby Hull
“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.” PeopleThinkingKidsFatherFunChildhoodReactionsCarefree Author:Artie Lange
“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesBigsKidsRememberGamesHouseFunGrowsCitiesGrowing UpChildhoodFrontsFootballBasketballNormalNeighborhoodYardsNew OrleansFootball GameBig CitiesTouch Football Author:Eli Manning
“By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.” TryingHardKidsGrowsGrowing UpChildhoodHarderHappy ChildhoodTrying So Hard Author:Lori Gottlieb
“Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.” KnowsWayWantKindChildrenBookCharacterCareKidsAgeAbleFightingReadingAttentionKnow HowChildhoodDetailsExcitementDescriptionPlotChaptersPacksBack WhenIllustrationDickensAttention SpanChild CareCliffhangerKiplingWay Back When Author:Cressida Cowell
“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
“Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.” KnowsWayFeelsLooksProblemKidsFacesChallengesStruggleGenerationsChildhoodWeightImplicationsObesityChildhood Obesity Author:Michelle Obama
“Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.” ImportantKidsNationsIssuesChildhoodObesityChildhood Obesity Author:Michelle Obama
“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
“So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.” PeopleStillsKidsTodayChildhoodDecidedOkayKillingBullshit Author:Quentin Dupieux
“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.” ThinkingChildrenIdeasMightKidsPastParentGoneTakenLandChildhoodAdventureDegreesIncrediblesStrikesNeighborSignificantGravesKingdomsWildernessPortionsAdulthoodExile Author:Michael Chabon
“All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.” CharacterKidsChildhoodBrotherPaperDrawsAdultsWindowGlassesDrawingMy BrotherTracingDrawing Pictures Author:Maurice Sendak
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” LoveInspirationalChildrenMomentsKidsSpiritualOpportunityDoorsTeachingChildhoodFutureSelf ImprovementParentingChildhood MemoriesChildren And ParentsParents LoveParent ChildBeing A KidInspirational ParentingChild At HeartTeachers From KidsUnhappy ChildhoodChildren InnocenceMagic Of ChildhoodKid At HeartJoys Of Childhood Author:Graham Greene
“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.” YearsRunningKidsFallHouseWaterPoorChildhoodGardenHotOur ChildrenRaisedHumbleMeatMilkCowsHogHot WaterBathtubsRunning Water Author:Phil Robertson
“Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.” YearsKidsSchoolPastOpportunityChildhoodHabitVery GoodHolidayCandyDoing NothingUtopiaBedtimeUnlearnGood Habits Book:Dad Is Fat Source: Dad Is Fat
“I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.” KidsSchoolNamesSpeakTeacherChildhoodTough Author:Giada De Laurentiis
“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” InspirationalKidsTodayJobsFacesSeeingChildhoodDisciplineParentingAthleteHardestMannersGood MannersMannerismsHardest JobBeing PoliteTable MannersCourtesy Manners Author:Fred Astaire