Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. ”

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. ”

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it. ”

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. ”

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. ”

Our children were trained to look after each other. ”

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments. ”

A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions. ”

I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday. ”

My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis. ”