childhood desires Quotes

I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.

I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.

My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.

When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano.

Life got very good - we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff - drums, a PC, turntables.

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, 'cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn't have. So I still get them.

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

When I was younger I used to want to own a sweet shop so I could eat sweets all day, but that dream died a long time ago.

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier...and we still want it... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.

When I was kid I always wanted to be either the captain of the England cricket team or I wanted to be a river bailiff.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.

When I was little, I always sad that I wanted a brother, and now it's like having four of them!

For my 10th birthday, what I wanted was Beatle boots and a Beatle wig. My parents couldn't find Beatle boots, but down at the dime store, Woolworths or someplace, they found a Beatle wig!

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don't have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.

The freedom that I wanted as a kid would - probably would not have been good for me and not in the way in which I wanted it.