Childhood Quote by John Burnside

I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

— Anna Deavere Smith

When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8…

— Daisy Fuentes

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and…

— Mary Ruefle

I remember one night in Memphis, I'd come out of a blackout, and I didn't know where I was. I'm feeling through the darkness…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as…

— Charles Bukowski

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went…

— Juno Temple

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been…

— Terry Brooks

Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival…

— Anonymous

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when…

— Peter O'Toole

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came…

— Honorius Augustodunensis

I remember being 12 or 13 and listening to 'Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp' by OC Smith. It reminds me of holidays in Cornwall,…

— Paul Young

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I…

— Cassandra Wilson