Prince Harry Quotes

I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

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

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.

I can't remember a dish my mother made that to me was pleasant. To this day I have a phobia of instant noodles.

My dad was trying to prepare me for what he went through as a kid.

The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

People seem to forget what it was like to be a child. I think it's partly because they want to forget, because it usually wasn't as good as you thought it was, and so you want to skip over those things, and not have to relate to that anymore.

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing out candy so the kids would play with her. Though it was a humorous moment, Mila said, "I know, God bless her. She's an amazing, amazing woman."

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.