If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.
I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.
I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.
I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.
I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.
Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.
It is very rare for a child of God to find gold and crude oil on the floor to fetch. He/she must dig and dig deeply well!!!
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.
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.
