All Quotes

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
‐‐ Augusten Burroughs

As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.
‐‐ John Bradshaw

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.
‐‐ Michael Graves

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.
‐‐ Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia

As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me that I had the vision to accomplish great things in life. He always encouraged me to do what I wanted to do - and this has stood me in good stead.
‐‐ Sunil Mittal

As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.
‐‐ Jonathan Stroud

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.
‐‐ George Foreman

As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.
‐‐ Asif Ali Zardari

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!
‐‐ Kara Walker

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised by the children at school because I looked like I was going to an opening every day. We weren't wealthy at all; we lived in a row house in Philadelphia.
‐‐ Lynda Resnick

As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.
‐‐ Miranda Kerr

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.
‐‐ Reggie Watts

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
‐‐ Marion Jones

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
‐‐ Abigail Washburn

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
‐‐ Kerry Greenwood

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
‐‐ Patricia Heaton

As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
‐‐ Sam Kean

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
‐‐ Kamla Persad-Bissessar

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them.
‐‐ Tobias Hill

As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.
‐‐ Christopher Fowler

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
‐‐ Buddy Hackett

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
‐‐ Nathaniel Kahn

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.
‐‐ Shukla Bose

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
‐‐ Tanith Lee

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
‐‐ Ian Gomez

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.
‐‐ Terrence Howard

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
‐‐ Thelma Golden

As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find themselves.
‐‐ Bruce Weber

As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.
‐‐ James McGreevey

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.
‐‐ Ishmael Beah

As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.
‐‐ Max Heindel

As a child, the conversations that I liked to have with my friends - or with anyone, for that matter - were always about religion.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
‐‐ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
‐‐ Lee Radziwill

As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
‐‐ Zoe McLellan

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.
‐‐ James E. Faust