I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
Robert Jay Lifton

I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.
Eric Wilson

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
Patty Duke

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
Jonathan Coe

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
Barbet Schroeder

I've never outgrown my childhood.
David McCallum

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Peter Handke

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
Tim Conway

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

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
Tracy Kidder

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
Patsy Cline

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
John Ratzenberger

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
Edvard Munch

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
Sergio Leone

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
Alice Miller

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
Alice Miller

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
Miranda Richardson

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
Corey Feldman