I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
Augusten Burroughs

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
Wally Schirra

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
Kate Adie

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
Stanislav Grof

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
Dennis Rodman

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
Manuel Puig

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
Bobby Flay

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.
Derek Jacobi

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
Dennis Potter

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
Augusten Burroughs

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
Don DeLillo

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.
Marcel Carne

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.
Tommy Rettig

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
Charley Pride

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
Uma Thurman

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
Alan Hovhaness

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
Patrick Stewart

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
Anthony Hopkins

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
Carol Ann Duffy