Childhood : (126) " I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I’m very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing. " - Sue Perkins " When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown – 12.5 pence – to wash her car each week. " - Barry Gardiner " When I was a kid, I had serious athlete’s foot and nosebleeds. " - Ken Kercheval " I remember everyone in my nursery school class getting a carton of milk before the day started. Only, I got mine about 20 minutes later than everyone else because it had to be kept on the radiator for a short while. I liked warm milk when I was small. " - Luke Pasqualino " My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America. " - Olivia Wilde " When I was really little, I wanted to be a vet. My four older siblings and I grew up on my dad’s beef farm near Bolton, and I loved all our animals. " - Sara Cox " When you’re a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn’t have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do. " - Holliday Grainger " I don’t want to be a grown-up anymore; it’s hard! " - Maddie Hasson " Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. " - Ambrose Bierce " The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I’m writing. " - Judy Blume