Frankie Avalon Quotes

I liked the Ballarat train as a child.

The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.

Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience.

I grew up in a haunted house, reading Dr. Seuss.

I remember being a little kid walking down the grocery aisle seeing athletes on these cereal boxes.

Everyone has a goldfish when they're little.

In Vienna, when I was a year-and-a-half or two years-old. I remember it because I remember the little blue raincoat I used to wear, and how the buttons felt. I liked to walk on the street in front of our house when it was raining, and jump into all the puddles. That's weird, but that's my earliest memory.

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

Everything when I was a kid was illustrated.

In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind of time travel.

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.