When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.

By 12, my body had changed, although instead of blossoming into Cindy Mancini from 'Can't Buy Me Love,' I more closely resembled Chunk from 'The Goonies.' My inside world may have been filled with a poetic and vital feminine life force, but the outside world saw and told me otherwise.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

Baby needs a new pair of shoes,' he said. 'My baby doesn't need any shoes.

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

“Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you.”

I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.

"...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness."

"Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?"

"Children make your life important."

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."

"A child's giggle tickles me deeply, and it breaks my heart when that begins to disappear. So I do what I can to create opportunities for children to continue to laugh and rediscover their joy."

"I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners."

"I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me."

"When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me."

"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me."

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."