When I lived in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., I was rather proud that my landlord was almost the only African-American in my unofficially segregated neighbourhood (the other one was the adopted child of our admirable next-door neighbours).
Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.
Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?
I've been a fan of the Marvel Universe since I was a little child.
