Richard Branson Quotes

I have these vivid - some fabulous, some not so fabulous - childhood memories of driving to Lake Tahoe.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

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.

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.

Some of my fondest memories are holidays by the seaside.

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.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!

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

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I had an amazing childhood.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

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

I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.

I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart.

What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.