Jane Goldman Quotes

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.

The things that impress you when you're a child have an incredible influence on your life.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.