George H. W. Bush Quotes

My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from a very young age, and we have always put up a little bit of a rebellion against it.

I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5 years old.

In my formative years, when I was a little kid, I'd get out of elementary school, and because my mother worked as a nurse, I'd have to find a way to get a ride to the high school and watch my dad's team practice.

I didn't like horses when I was a kid.

My mother made me eat broccoli. I hate brocoli. I am President of the United States. I will not eat any more broccoli.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father!

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.

As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.

My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player.

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

When I was a little girl - if I could have - I would have gone a year without washing my hair. I hated it, to the point where my sisters had to pay me to wash my hair. I think, after experiencing that, I like to wash it every day.

I was about eight when I started tap dancing - against my own will. My mom wanted me to do it. She thought I would love it, and I didn't believe her. I turned out to be obsessed with it.

Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised. I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally.

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

I was always that little kid that irritated people.

She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.

I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.

I think the first music I ever heard was Abba. I took my mother's cassette recorder and went into the bushes to listen to Abba when I was four or five-years-old.

When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

Sondheim has been a part of my musical collective since I was eight. I was a dramatic little kid.

My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on, I covered my ears and ran out of the room.

I was never plunked in front of an idiot box because my parents had other things to do.