Spent My Childhood Quotes

#1. I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Rickie Lee Jones

#2. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

Lauren Bacall

#3. I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Julian Cope

#4. It's amazing the things that the heart and mind can endure. No one ever told me that growing up, so I often spent my childhood thinking something was wrong with me.

Yassin Hall

#5. I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

Nancy Marchand

#6. I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

Giles Foden

#7. I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Sara Canning

#8. I spent my childhood being cut down to fit a space where I never belonged in the first place. I spent the rest of my life searching for someone to tell me what to do with the scars.

Marta Maranda

#9. I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

Richard Simmons

#10. I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

Bill Bailey

#11. I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

Miranda Kerr

#12. I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

Gloria Estefan

#13. My mom wore the pants in the family, for sure. I always say, that I spent my childhood trying to get the love and attention of my mom, and now I can't get rid of it.

Jill Sobule

#14. My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

Olivia Wilde

#15. I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.

Romulus Whitaker

#16. I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5.

Tess Gerritsen

#17. I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]

Dani Shapiro

#18. Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

Valentina Tereshkova

#19. I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Ricky Schroder

#20. My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

Julian Fellowes

#21. I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.

Autre Ne Veut

#22. I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.

Billy Ray Chitwood

#23. I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published.

Susanna Kearsley

#24. Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

Jane Smiley

#25. I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

Jandy Nelson

#26. I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#27. My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

Sadie Jones

#28. I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

Dennis Rodman

#29. I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

Seth MacFarlane

#30. I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

Orson Scott Card

#31. Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.

Mary Harron

#32. Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't. The dark stretches, the blanks, are much bigger than the bright glimpses. I seem to have spent most of my time like a plant in a cupboard.

Katherine Mansfield

#33. 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

#34. I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

Halldor Laxness

#35. I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

Thomas Keller

#36. I spent half my childhood in the shadows. Hiding from my father or my brother. Creeping from a place of solitude to another. Seeing while unseen, and pretending I was a part of what I saw. Making up a life where I wasn't an outcast.

Joe Abercrombie

#37. I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

Arabella Weir

#38. I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.

Kate Forsyth

#39. I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

Jane Fonda

#40. I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

Dakota Johnson

#41. I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

Natalie Babbitt

#42. My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#43. I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.

India De Beaufort

#44. My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

Susan Hayward

#45. I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

Anthony Marra

#46. My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.

Jill Soloway

#47. The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Andre Leon Talley

#48. Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

Rachel Boston

#49. I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.

Troy Garity

#50. I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Anita Diament

#52. I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

Wil Wheaton

#53. 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

#54. I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

William Sadler

#55. My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Peter Shaffer

#56. My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Kai Bird

#57. Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale.

John Cornforth

#58. My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books.

Tess Gerritsen

#59. I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

Danica Patrick

#60. Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.

Craig Brown

#61. I spent my entire childhood wishing that I was older
Now I'm older and this shit sucks

Unknown

#62. I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

Chris Corrigan

#63. I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

Robert Webb

#64. Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.

Jake Busey

#65. My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

Tess Gerritsen

#66. I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.

Bonnie St. John

#67. Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

Claire Tomalin

#68. I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Margaret Atwood

#69. I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors.

Miranda Kerr

#70. I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

Dido Armstrong

#71. So I went back in time and told her how I liked the smell of soil after the rain. It has a special place in my heart. It reminds me of my childhood days. Days spent in happiness and tranquility.

Avijeet Das

#72. My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.

Ben Elliot

#73. I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

Chelsea Cain

#74. I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

Elif Safak

#75. My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

Sophie Kinsella

#76. Most of my childhood was spent clinging to the feathers of a dulled arrow blindly fired across a starless night.

Brian K. Vaughan

#77. 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

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

Patrick Stewart

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

Stanislav Grof

#80. I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

Sam Heughan

#81. I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Ernest Cline