I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: "It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.
I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough.
I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
