Quotes about Childhood

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.