I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.Jesse Plemons
Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.Mel B
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.Malcolm X
The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.Friedrich Nietzsche
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.Denis Leary
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.Bob Ehrlich
I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there.Joseph Brodsky
Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.R. L. Stine
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.Anthony Browne
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.Luciano Pavarotti
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.Benjamin Franklin
I grew up in Zimbabwe and we didn't have much. My dad worked away for the whole week as an engineer, came back on Friday with his pay and gave the rent money to my mum. He'd put aside money for food and stuff and he'd keep the rest. That's how Africans lived, but there was enough to go around.Dereck Chisora
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.Robert Redford
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.Thomas Szasz
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.Fred Rogers
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.Margaret Mead
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.Tim Burton
I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.Robin Quivers
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Francis Bacon
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.Sigmund Freud