Thelma Golden Quotes

I had an amazing childhood.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

A handsome period of my childhood was spent at our house in Tollygunge.

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

I had a lovely time growing up.

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal.