I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11.
Ricky Schroder
MemoriesChildhoodGradesNormal
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Ned Rorem
ChildhoodArtistUpBeingGrowsHe
My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
Gail Z. Martin
FatherChildhoodLovedPlacesQuite
The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.
Robert Hilburn
ChildhoodNameBornCreationNothing
Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found important in the world.
Brandon Victor Dixon
ChildhoodWorldImportantResponsible
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
Ezra Taft Benson
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
Tao Okamoto
GoodGirlChildhoodSchoolMeYou
Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.
Michael Steger
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I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
Richard Simmons
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There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
Margo Lanagan
AgeChildrenChildhoodWorldLuxury
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
Action Bronson
MemoriesGreatChildhoodParents
I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.
Jean-Pascal Tricoire
LifeFamilyBusinessChildhoodDeep
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
Bonnie Raitt
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I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.
Ezra Miller
FamilyLoveHappinessChildhoodCold
When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
TimeChildhoodPeopleTalkingBad
Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.
Michael Leunig
ChildhoodBeginningManPeopleFirst
It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.
Nico Rosberg
HomeChildhoodMeWinningRacingUp
As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty.
Marc Veasey
PowerChildhoodParentsPoverty
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
Carlos Ghosn
ChildhoodEnvironmentYouNeverMay
In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
Ann Turner
GirlJourneyChildhoodPeopleMe
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
Bobby Flay
LoveMemoriesChildhoodMeEatUp
The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an easy thing in those days.
Emil Zatopek
ChildhoodJobSchoolMeEasyFind
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
ChildhoodMeChallengesOthersAway
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
BeachChildhoodIdealMuchSounds
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