As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

I have an only child. She’s so independent and good with adults.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel.”I laughed sort and bitterly. “That’s what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of–when I know for...

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated

I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor...

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

Ukiwapa watoto wako uhuru wa shaghalabaghala au uhuru wa kila kitu watajisahau! Wape uhuru wa mahesabu.

You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don’t seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I’m so fucking proud of you.

I’ve been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That’s a joke, but not by much.

I think it’s possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

I’m going to name my firstborn son 0123456789, because I want him to learn to count before he learns the alphabet. And my second son I’ll call 01, because I want him to get into...

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she’s raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn’t until...

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother’s extremely banal taste.

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

Children are sacred beings.

A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

Laughing like crazythe child goes back to the citygives birth to monsterscreates earthquakeshairy women run nakedold folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even...

We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future.

Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood...

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dreams.

I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children… and for defending in juvenile court those kids the ‘child protective system’ had missed when it had the...

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

A child’s cry touches a father’s heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more than cry it will bring omnipotence to our aid. A cry is the...

I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.

…his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.

Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself… and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your children and grandchildren and unborn generations enlightened by what you have already learnt!

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man’s brains out of his hair. That is my job.

I firmly believe that I have received the same child I was meant to receive, whether I gave birth or adopted. The same soul, the same entity, was meant to be mine, from the beginning...

I don’t read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don’t want to be blocked by things...

Perfection is the child of time.

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. “What on earth will you be doing with something so large?” said Mum.”I shall live in it with my servants, of course,”...

You can’t play with everything that looks playable, I guess even a child knows that.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, ‘Hey, I’d like to draw manga – I’d like to be a manga author!’

She knows that it’s not my fault if I don’t know how many Zs there are in LOSER.

I grew up as an only child.

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was ‘Asterix and Obelix’ and ‘Tin Tin’ comic books, or ‘Lord of the Rings,’ or Frank Herbert’s sci-fi. Or ‘The Wind in the Willows.’...

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don’t find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you’re-going-to-be-late, keepers of the diary of her duties and...

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.