Konrad Lorenz Quotes

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.

When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

While I didn't have a father around, I did have - and what I want my children to both experience - the ability to explore, experiment and enjoy life as a kid.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.

I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

Where I grew up, it was a very open home.

My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.

My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

I had grown up with four sisters.

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 have been blessed with a family, mother especially, who started buying me fancy shoes from the time I took baby steps.