I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.
Michelle Paver
ChildLessonKindRunWriteUsed
As a child I wanted to become an architect.
Chris Hughes
ChildBecomeArchitectWanted
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
Philip Johnson
WisdomGreatChildJustLikeFrank
As a child, I was fascinated by any branch of physical or biological science. Even today, I find great excitement in discovering the complexity and variability of the world we live in, getting a glimpse into the deeper reality that we mostly ignore in our everyday human activities.
Robert J. Shiller
LiveTodayScienceGreatChildFind
The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
Maria Montessori
GrowthPersonalityChildFashion
Since the first large Zika outbreak ever recognized, in 2007, the CDC has had boots on the ground responding. Our laboratories have developed a test that can confirm Zika in the first week of illness or in a sample from an affected child.
Tom Frieden
ChildBootsWeekTestFirstGround
I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.
Janet Yellen
TrainingI AmChildCareMoreFix
My identity was tangled up in the parts that I had played since I was a child. I would go through my closet and only see audition clothes: Brie looking older, Brie looking '60s, Brie looking '40s, Brie looking younger in the future.
Brie Larson
FutureIdentityChildLookingGoUp
I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.
Jessica Parker Kennedy
ChildMomSheAlwaysSingleBeen
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley
TrainingChildEyePlanHandBeen
I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'
Amanda Foreman
ChildSomeoneSaidYoungGunsGoing
I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' - so when they've been to those, they've been incredibly embarrassed. They won't be embarrassed going to see 'Black Death' - I reckon they're going to love it.
Kimberley Nixon
LovePastDeathChildBlackPerfect
I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.
Michiel Huisman
SchoolChildGuitarSoccerActing
I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.
David Tennant
ChildMeTheatreWorldBookCinema
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
ManChildForwardSeriousMatters
Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with Syrah and Mourvedre and labels with fanciful names such as Problem Child, the Outsider and Cherry Red.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
RedChildPotentialProblemCherry
I eat like a child! Oh my God. It's terrible. My child eats way healthier than me! She loves the veggies. She doesn't like packaged sweets.
Mariacarla Boscono
GodChildMeWaySheEat
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
Robert Bork
GoodChildSocietyEnlightenment
It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.
Jann Wenner
DailyHeartTimeFunChildLanguage
My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.
Brooke Smith
WomenGirlChildMeThinkWish
As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.
John Burnside
ChildCityConfidentQuestionSize
Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.
Todd Bridges
LoveNever Give UpChildYouNever
When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress.
Stephen Furst
ChildChocolateSugarMilkMeanEat
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
Kevin Kwan
MenBikeChildHouseDownRun
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