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

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
Steve Irwin

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
Frederick Reines

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
Philip Zimbardo

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
Anita Diament

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
Roberto Benigni

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.
Paula Danziger

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
Lee Grant

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Truman Capote

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
Amy Tan

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.
Josh Lucas

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
Harry Shearer

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
Eleanor Porter

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
Orlando Bloom

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
Kaley Cuoco

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
William H. Macy

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Agatha Christie

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
Al Sharpton