But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she’d say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom’s was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a...

I don’t know where to start,” one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can....

And now the bad Mommy was here – outside his window. With a little whimper, he ran back to the bed, jumped in, and pulled the covers over his head.Good Mommy was gone now…and bad...

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Mwachie mwanao urithi wa kutosha ili aweze kufanya kitu, lakini si urithi wa kutosha ili asiweze kufanya kitu.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I’m not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I’m the only one who’s questioned about it.

Not only am I not my dad’s favorite child—I’m his only child.

He who hasn’t experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time–he is a child.

The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child.

Just a child. All this time we’ve feared you, sought you. And you’re nothing more than a human child.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

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...

When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the hunger of a child.

Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of...

A child can escape the shadows.

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child...

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Hello, inner child, I’m the inner babysitter!

Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.

When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.

It’s terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It’s a miracle. I don’t understand it. I live it very intensely.

I was the problem and the solution.

It was a child’s awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.

Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their...

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to...

Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents’ names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like...

Peter Rabbit’s not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit’s position.

You are a child of the universeCome to choose how to live here.You are a child of the universeLoved beyond measure.

If I was made of cake I’d eat myself before somebody else could.

Maybe because I’m a child of the ’80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven’t seen the original, then you don’t understand the second...

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

Children act on the words they hear.May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.May your words inspire and challenge children to fulfill their true potential.

Motherhood doesn’t have a nationality

I wasn’t a child who wanted to be an actor.

Why the Romans, Father?” I asked him one afternoon. “Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead,” he answered.

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don’t feel that I’m working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I’m playing.

Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.

That’s my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn’t like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?… No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn’t be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.

…Ty grabbed my phone and threatened to tell Otter that I liked being spanked during sex.This proceeded to lead up on a long tangent where I had to have him explain to me how he...

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.