Childhood Quotes

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

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

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

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.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.