My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. Votes: 7
My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best. Votes: 7
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. Votes: 5
The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds. Votes: 5
I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it. Votes: 5
I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace. Votes: 4
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. Votes: 3
⦠It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know. Votes: 3
I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down. Votes: 3
I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s. Votes: 3
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. Votes: 2
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. Votes: 2
I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York. Votes: 2
I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development. Votes: 2
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home. Votes: 2
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny. Votes: 2
Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment. Votes: 2
My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape. Votes: 2
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Votes: 2
I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world. Votes: 2
It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable. Votes: 2
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home. Votes: 2
I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression. Votes: 0
I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home! Votes: 0
There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood. Votes: 0
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home. Votes: 0
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents. Votes: 0
Childhood is a short season. Votes: 5 Helen Hayes
Home is where one starts from. Votes: 6 T. S. Eliot