It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.
DeForest Kelley

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.
John Keegan

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Berke Breathed

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
Maya Lin

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.
Lucien Bouchard

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
Tom Glazer

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Alice Meynell

Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
Sandra Cisneros

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Ethel Waters

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
Robert Vaughn

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
Frank McCourt

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
Robert B. Laughlin

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
Peter Jurasik

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
Poppy Z. Brite

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 was appalling.
Taylor Caldwell

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