It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't...

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood wa...

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones th...

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember see...

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday...

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20...

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy bir...

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New...

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually,...

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence...

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that chil...

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationalit...