I didn’t play with other children.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

This was life in the ’30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

I think what we’ve found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we’re really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

In the real world, children love me.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.