Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.
Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.
When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshness Peace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.
To see the beauties, mysteries and magics of your existence look at it with intense love, child's wonder and joyful heart.
Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.
God is in control of all events and is able to protect and provide for you His child.
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.
'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
It's absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization - be it an elementary school, daycare, or community center - provide its children with time and space to play.
I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.
You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!
