Sonja Henie Quotes

That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her way home in the dark by the streetlights of town and so returned to the people who loved her. And in the fall the days turned cold and the leaves dropped off the trees and in the winter the wind blew from the mountains and out on the high plains of Holt County there were overnight storms and three-day blizzards.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

I had a lovely time growing up.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.

My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

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'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

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.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.

As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go.

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 did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

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

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

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.