It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood. (Quote by - Eli Manning)

We bought this house in '73 and all their childhood memories are tied up with this house. They really wanted me to restore it and that's what I'm going to do. I'm hoping it doesn't happen again. If it does, I'll rebuild again, because this is my home. (Quote by - Dona Stephens)

It's the busiest in my memory, and I've been around 50 years. It reminds me of my childhood years growing up in the Miami area. Hurricanes were a rite of passage. (Quote by - Stacy Stewart)

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'. (Quote by - Gwyneth Paltrow)

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what i told everybody i was going to be when i grew up. (Quote by - Chester Bennington)

He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself. (Quote by - Ghulam Nabi)

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children. (Quote by - Dwayne Hickman)

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle. (Quote by - Bobby Hull)

No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it. (Quote by - Dante Hall)

They were often forced to do so in their childhood, and nowadays they can get all information on TV. (Quote by - Fay Weldon)

Typical childhood -- playing down by the river and swinging on rope ladders and playing baseball and all that fun stuff kids do. (Quote by - Blake Johnson)

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. (Quote by - Harville Hendrix)

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life. . . . Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world. (Quote by - Gaston Bachelard)

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. (Quote by - William Osler)

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. (Quote by - Sissela Bok)

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. (Quote by - William Gibson)

John Lennon and Paul McCartney 's childhood homes were preserved because they spent a significant part of their lives in them. (Quote by - Flo Clucas)

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. (Quote by - Fran Drescher)

She's as normal as anyone who's been in the business since the age of six can be. She didn't have a childhood, so she's going to come across as cold and remote. But she's such a sweet cake. (Quote by - Anthony Head)

There have been major cuts in early childhood programs. If there are gaps in the foundation of early education, just developing more rigorous standards for high school is not going to achieve the results we all want. (Quote by - Sue Taylor)

Some one once asked me, what makes me think m special, or unique? I think the answer is that I never abandoned my childhood dreams. I still think if I work hard enough, that one day, at least some of them can come true. I believe this, to the very core of my existence, and I will never give up. (Quote by - Ron Gonzalez)

Somewhere in our early childhood, our bodies became overloaded with stress and we began to breathe through our mouths. As babies we were all nose breathers - if we weren't, breastfeeding would be a very messy affair. (Quote by - Roger Price)

Now that years have gone by and I look back at it and I can put one and two together, it was my childhood memories and cultural feelings and beliefs in the whole tie-in of the French Canadian/Portuguese thing. (Quote by - Emeril Lagasse)

Our whole family revolves around sports and it was always competitive. I remember childhood games going against my older sisters and everything was so competitive, but it was a lot of fun. (Quote by - Spencer Stewart)