Jane Hamilton Quotes

When I was little, there were three channels.

I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

Television and I grew up together.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

I didn't see a ton of movies growing up.

I never read comic books as a kid.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. I suppose we all realize the degree to which fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years.

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

As a kid, I watched a lot of TV.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

I always had games on Saturdays as I was growing up.

When I grew up, there was no TV, nothing. The guitar could be my whole life. The kids today have Internet and TV and games and all that stuff.

I've always loved technology. Growing up, I loved Nintendo and video games.

When I was a little kid, me and all my family lived in a house the size of my daughter's room.

I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.

I liked being a kid. I liked being a student.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.