Jens Lekman Quotes

I love those kids on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.' I remember when they were little they looked like they were having so much fun just being kids. And that's how I was growing up and how I try to be.

As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

When I smell pho, I just automatically think of my mom. All these nostalgic feelings and memories come rushing through my head.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

I always drank chocolate milk growing up and I remember my grandmother would always have it when I would visit her in the Dominican Republic - that's when it all started.

I lost my biological father at nine, but up until then, we celebrated Christmas and Easter too.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]

When I was growing up, I knew a lot about football because I saw some of my grown-up siblings watching football on TV and they supported Manchester United.

I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was, like, 8, and when I went to my dad's house on the weekend, he'd play a lot of music: Miles Davis, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Elton John.

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

I grew up eating chicken and dumplings in my grandma's kitchen.

Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory.

My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school, after having made a detour to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk and fix a thick peanut butter sandwich on easy-to-tear white bread, I would go up to her sitting room.

Bread and football - that's how I grew up.