A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.
My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.
The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.
If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.
No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.
I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.
I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.
Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.
Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.
If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.
J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
