I gave up my childhood for a career.
Brenda Lee

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Andrew Wiles

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
Shaun Cassidy

I had a marvelously happy childhood.
Darius Milhaud

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt Cobain

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
Patti Smith

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
Maureen Forrester

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
Suzanne Farrell

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
Rachel Dratch

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
Rory Bremner

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Susie Bright

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
Nolan Ryan

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Charles Lamb

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.
Tina Yothers

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.
Daniel Pinkwater

I look back to a happy childhood.
Catherine Helen Spence

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.
Frank Leslie

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
William Graham Sumner

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
Alma Guillermoprieto