My parents came out of Glasgow during the Depression and…

“No one had to explain to me the power our childhoods had over us, even when we fought like hell against them.”

— Amy Engel

Back in the Seventies, we bucked the trend. Instead of going to London and handing in a demo tape, we insisted the record labels…

— Jim Kerr

I studied in Glasgow and, when I was young, I spent four years solely in theatre.

— Denis Lawson

When I was very small, when I was five or six, that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a song and…

— Denis Lawson

My family are all Glasgow. I was born there. Govan. When it was very tough. The tenements. All that stuff.

— Denis Lawson

“We gave each other the childhoods we had lost.”

— Akiah Watts

“Childhoods shine through adult skin, helpfully or not.”

— Ian McEwan

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…

— Eric Wilson

“You'd be surprised how many childhoods each of us has.”

— David Rivard

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

— Elizabeth Taylor

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

— Jon Heder

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places…

— Julianne Moore

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

So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of…

— Susan Shreve

“On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized elaboration of…

— Leslie Le Mon