I’m a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. – Stacy Schiff
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. – Tanith Lee
I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn’t really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it. – Ving Rhames
It’s one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It’s another to get a letter from a grown child saying they’re coming back to live with you! – Walt Handelsman
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world. – Yayoi Kusama
I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground. – Sarah Hall
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe. – V. S. Naipaul
As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you’re 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends. – Stephen Chbosky
When I started to write ‘Hannah’s Child,’ I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that. – Stanley Hauerwas
I mostly wrote ‘Thursday’s Child’ to explore the idea of a wild child – a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small. – Sonya Hartnett
You’ve never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, ‘We can’t believe it happened here. We can’t believe it’s these suburban white kids.’ It’s only them! – Van Jones
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. – Vivienne Westwood
My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. – Stephen Colbert
I’m not a child star, but you could say that I’ve grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called ‘Martin.’ From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on ‘Saturday Night Live’ since Eddie Murphy. – Tracy Morgan
My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness. – Sara Paxton
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. – V. S. Naipaul
This question: ‘How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?’ has been with me ever since I was a child. – Scilla Elworthy
There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We’ve gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving. – Tracey Ullman
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain. – Tom Brokaw
I’d grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball. – V. E. Schwab
My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises. – Thalia
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. – Thomas Szasz
