All Quotes

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.
‐‐ Lee Radziwill

My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
‐‐ Naeem Khan

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

My childhood was appalling.
‐‐ Taylor Caldwell

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
‐‐ Lauren Groff

My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community.
‐‐ Lauren Groff

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.
‐‐ Robert Webb

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
‐‐ Sadie Frost

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld

My childhood was extreme.
‐‐ Tori Amos

My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
‐‐ Action Bronson

My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.
‐‐ Rita Ora

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.
‐‐ Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

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.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
‐‐ Faith Evans

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.
‐‐ Sylvia Fraser

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
‐‐ Brigitte Nielsen

My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
‐‐ Ronnie James Dio

My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date back to ancient history, up to 10,000 years ago - but it feels that way to me. I used to have a love-hate relationship with dog stories because some got the dynamic right but most were dead wrong.
‐‐ David Wroblewski

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
‐‐ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
‐‐ Stephen Mangan

My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.
‐‐ Mohammed VI of Morocco

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.
‐‐ Dries van Noten

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
‐‐ Thomas Keller

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
‐‐ Stanley Donen

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.
‐‐ Andrew Card

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
‐‐ Victoria Beckham

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.
‐‐ Treat Williams

My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.
‐‐ Catherine Crier

My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

My children are grown now, they are more independent.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

My children are lovely. They're perfect.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
‐‐ Jack Black

My children are my children. There's no doubt about that at all. They're very strong towards me, very protective, and I towards them. It works both ways.
‐‐ Kiri Te Kanawa

My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
‐‐ Lara Logan

My children are my priority and always have been.
‐‐ Victoria Beckham

My children are my whole life.
‐‐ Kelly LeBrock