I don’t carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that’s what you’re hinting at. The story of the bicycles – and there were three of them which were stolen from me – I’ve dealt with it well. – Angela Merkel
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done. – Adam Savage
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood. – Anthony Browne
We’ve all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers ‘ruining our childhood,’ we forget that right now is someone else’s childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us. – Colin Trevorrow
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered. – Bayard Taylor
Let a man turn to his own childhood – no further – if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. – Alice Meynell
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be. – Alison Gopnik
I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective. – Brie Larson
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it’s with Africa or childhood. – Binyavanga Wainaina
I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey. – Alison Jackson
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood. – Anthony Browne
I’m hoping someday that we’ll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that’s the most important place to put the arts. – Agnes Gund
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. – Anita Diament
Where I live, in Vermont, there’s this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It’s almost a plague. – Colin Trevorrow
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over. – Alan Bennett
The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way. – Bee Wilson
I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let’s Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese. – Aaron Schock
I don’t know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood. – Bonnie Hunt
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child. – Annie Besant
My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn’t trust anybody. – Aminatta Forna
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can’t do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability. – Ann Bancroft
On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim. – Ahmed Zewail