Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
Joyce Carol Oates
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is... →
It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a... →
Barack Obama
I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled... →
Toyin Odutola
After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.
Kenzaburo Oe
As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a... →
Sophie Okonedo
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was... →
Gary Oldman
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an... →
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as... →
Mary Oliver
As a child, I was always playing some generic child.
Susan Olsen