I had a happy childhood, I didn't know about money then.

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at…

— Carol Vorderman

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young…

— Keisha Castle-Hughes

I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.

— Todd Haynes

My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we…

— Maeve Binchy

I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you…

— Terry Leahy

I had good parents. Two older brothers, bit of a handful between us, all got ginger hair, a bit fiery. I remember a very…

— Sean Dyche

One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.

— John Malkovich

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was…

— Patti Smith

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another…

— Erin Gruwell

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably…

— Corey Taylor

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

— Joan Crawford

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

— Katharine Isabelle

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

— Simon Callow

I had an Arabic background. but I lived a very scattered childhood. I didn't belong to any one culture, which meant I didn't have…

— Yasmine Hamdan

In my childhood, we didn't dress up a whole lot. It was very casual.

— Danielle Colby