Steve Rushin Quotes

I didn't read comics as a kid - though, obviously, I've read a lot since.

I used to read comics when I was a kid.

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.

I never read comic books as a kid.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.

One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.

I remember when I was younger, we used to read the Goosebumps books that were absolutely terrifying.

I grew up in a haunted house, reading Dr. Seuss.

I remember when I was a kid and I was interested in robots, there was really nothing out there but Erector Sets and Tinker Toys.

I used to go to Dairy Queen all the time. It always brings back a little bit of memories. As kids, we always used to go get ice cream.

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

I eat a lot of cereal and toast.

Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

I remember being a little kid walking down the grocery aisle seeing athletes on these cereal boxes.

'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.