Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.
From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle child - he wasn't the beloved first child, and he wasn't the cute little youngest child. So I said, can I use that same wording in a film? And he said yeah. So I bought it from him.
A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.
I don't yearn to be a child again.
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
In 1970, the average woman had her first child at 21.4; by 2012, it was almost 26, an age by which many young adults are at least a few years deep into jobs or careers.
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.
An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.
I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.
It's so important to look out for your child and protect them.
No child's future should ever be dictated by what zip code they were born in.