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

My parents came out of Glasgow during the Depression and both - particularly my father - had very tough childhoods. They fought their way…

— Denis Lawson

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

— Phil McGraw

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of…

— Jeff Kinney

I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.

— Brad Goreski

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually…

— Mark Goddard

“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

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

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

— James Hillman