Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework.
I just can't resist mutton biryani. It's something I've loved eating as a child too. Whenever I'm feeling low, I just pep myself with some good biryani.
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
I believe in less government interference in people's personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.
My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape...
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
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.
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.'
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.
To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.
Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
When I found out I was pregnant, I was 22. It was really scary because I was working the music thing, and with a kid coming, you just can't live that life with a child.
I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.
Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.
