I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.
When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.
What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.
I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
No child's dream should be limited by the quality, or lack thereof, of the education they receive.
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.
My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.
When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid.
I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.
I wanted young people to know that I was just a typical child.
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
After the first trimester, I do think that there is some room for the government to intervene, because at that point, it is an unborn child that could be viable on its own.
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act doesn't protect women's health. It threatens it.
My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.
