Childhood Connection Quotes

I just miss being around my mother. I'm her boy. I'm a momma's boy.

I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

Salman Khan is doing really well in his career. I know him since the time he was growing up.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

I really had no idea when I pitched the series that it would lead to so much fun and so much connecting with kids and moms.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.

I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears.

Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to it, going back several generations.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

Neil Amin-Smith and I met playing in classical orchestras when we were children. We are from the same area of London. We met Jack Patterson when we were studying at Cambridge University, and decided to start the band together.

Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti went to kindergarten together. For real.

'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.

I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't.

There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.

Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.

I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the mood for that - but certainly for the adults.

The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

I loved working with kids because the energy is great.

Somehow most of my fans are little children and I love that.