Paris Jackson Quotes

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

Whether it's 1970, 1990, or 2010, kids will be going through the same experiences.

I was just a regular kid.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

I would be lying if I said if I didn't miss out on what normal teenagers do, of course. But I don't need pity for that.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

I've said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I was a regular kid with a normal family life.

There were many things in my childhood I sacrificed: I started travelling quite young, compromising school in terms of learning and time with friends doing normal stuff as a kid you want to do. But obviously I wouldn't change a day.

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.