Sanford I. Weill Quotes

My childhood was extreme.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.

I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

When I was a kid, I had to fight for everything.

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

My uncles used to call me 'Devil Child,' or 'Triple' for triple six. They used to tell my brother Chris that they were going to get the demons out of him because he was also a little crazy. But to me, they'd just be like, 'You're too far gone. There's no exorcising you anymore.'

I wasn't a bad kid. I was a good kid. But I had gotten in a lot of fights 'cause in the neighborhood I grew up in, that wasn't equated with bad behavior almost. I mean, we'd fought like it was another game. 'You wanna play stick ball today?' 'Nah, let's go fight.'

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.