Eminem Quotes

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.

I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?

I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.

The beginning of peace is a smile

There are a few activities which are immensely valuable: laughter is one of these activities. Singing, dancing, are also of the same quality, but laughter is the quickest.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

I count only the hours that are serene.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.