Hilary Hahn Quotes

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

I do have a regular childhood.

We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

I had an amazing childhood.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.

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

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

I didn't have any pets growing up.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

I'm a child of academics.

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

Is there such a thing as a normal childhood?

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

I had that extroverted energy, and I always involved myself in quite adult conversations. My mum never hid us from that. There was never a kids' table; we were never treated as kids, per se, because I don't think she believes in that.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

I was safe, due to my parents, but the Boys' Club was a massive influence.

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 think that, any young child or teenager, you take a lot from your parents when you're growing up.

I remember when I was young, I used to love hockey - I was selected to play for my county - and my dad said: 'Well, there's no money to be made in hockey,' and it put me off for ever.

I think that I've always been a normal kid.