I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who…

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

— Ruby Dee

You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all…

— Lorraine Bracco

“You even used to make up funny stories about those poor little lost creatures of yours. Remember Bob, the squirrel banker who forgot to…

— Kimberly Derting

We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for…

— Maeve Binchy

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the…

— Roger Ebert

“We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers…

— Jean Thompson

“Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but…

— Rachel Gathercole

“I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a handful of…

— Halldór Laxness

I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.

— Jens Lekman

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to…

— Sissy Spacek

I'm the youngest of three children. We lived beside a big beech wood, on the edge of the moors, in Northumberland, which was enormously…

— Alexander Armstrong

I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“When I was in second grade, my teacher, Miss Maxwell, read from The Harmony Herald that one in every four children lived in China.…

— Philip Gulley

Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You…

— Bruce Campbell

“One of the children lived.”

— Michael J. Sullivan