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 don’t remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in...

My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

The bicycle is a former child’s toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger...

I wasn’t very ambitious as a child. I’m still not.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in...

The fact that you are true child of God doesn’t mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child’s obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were...

Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can’t see them in the supermarket or wherever. It’s a terrible, terrible moment… the most unimaginable...

Without the support from religion–remember, we talked about it–no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with – and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and...

Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time.

I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to...

Every role I’ve played, that could’ve happened. It’s nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.

The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them and onto YOU.

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

Trying to rewrite the past was a child’s game, a pointless, ridiculous child’s game no one ever won.

I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave.

I know I’ll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there’s one thing being a victor doesn’t guarantee, it’s our children’s safety. My kids’ names would go right into the...

A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother,...

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve...

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t...

I got excited when I saw a midget, and then disappointed when I realized it was just a child. Those things are so common.

When somebody says, ‘This must be a children’s book,’ basically they’re saying, ‘You must be a child.’ And so my answer is, ‘Well, yes, I guess I am a child.’ But I don’t think of...

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence – you should...

This is my life’s work. It is a user’s manual to the human being, a parenting book … and how to be the best you can be.

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I’m not leaving ’til it’s done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.

No child’s face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible!

Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see.

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I’ve known that since the very first time.

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh…

There’s no one right way to parent, and there’s no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

[…]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don’t use force.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn’t scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child...

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.