As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them. – Tobias Hill
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. – Timothy Noah
I think it’s important to recall… what you remember your grandmother making, where you’re from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids. – Tyler Florence
As a child, I watched ‘Dallas’ and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember. – Will Smith
Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?… No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn’t be in places where he needs to contact me by cell. – Stephen Baker
If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word. – Stanley R. Jaffe
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley
Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn’t until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up. – Susan Isaacs
If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job. – Victor LaValle
As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with. – Timothy Murphy
I’m in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I’m in a good mood. It’s beautiful: an energetic little skeleton. – Stellan Skarsgard
There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory. – Tzipi Livni
When you’re a child, you’re able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you’re around. I wasn’t conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor. – Vincent D’Onofrio
It’s been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen – a natural born citizen. – Ted Cruz
My grandmother – my mother’s mother – was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17. – Sarah Gavron
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer. – Stephen Hawking
Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did. – Steve Carell
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. – William Butler Yeats
I don’t think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody’s got to look over the shoulder of that child. – Tavis Smiley
I don’t have children. I don’t know how I would feel if my child brought home a different race boyfriend or girlfriend. I don’t think I would have any issue with it. But I have no litmus test for that. – Tracee Ellis Ross
I grew up watching ‘Superman.’ As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn’t diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully. – Tom Hiddleston
In many ways I’m similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated. – Said Sayrafiezadeh
I am always who I am, and anyone who’s known me forever will tell you that. I guess there’s enough of a child in me that that’s important. – Teresa Heinz
The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It’s like a memoir-cookbook. – Tony Danza
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn’t scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible. – Victoria Jackson
As an adult, I’ll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn’t interest me in 50 pages, I’ll say the heck with it – there are just too many other things to read. A child won’t give you 50 pages. – Sid Fleischman