“If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.” IfsChildrenSchoolParentChildhoodSeriousCongressNutritionImprovingChipsObesityEpidemicsChild ObesityChildhood ObesityObesity Epidemic Author:Tom Harkin
“In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!” HeartVoiceChildhoodSeriousMy HeartIllnessThroatKateInfection Author:Patsy Cline
“William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.” ImportantChildhoodSeriousCornerstonesBlakeSerious Business Author:Maurice Sendak
“I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.” YearsBookDreamKidsWantedNovelHellChildhoodPositionSeriousDrawsYeahComicFinding YourselfAdolescenceComic BookGraphicCollectorsGraphic NovelsUnfulfilled DreamsHell Yeah Author:Anthony Bourdain
“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.” ThinkingNeedsKindSaidTwoArtistLeftStuffChildhoodSeriousLike YouBalanceHealthyHusbandOur ChildrenCompetitionSingersComedianMy HusbandFunny StuffHealthy Competition Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told the story, obviously. I wanted it be comedy first, because I felt like there already had been childhood druggy stories that were very serious, and I felt that the unique thing here was that I was a comic and I could tell the story with some levity, and I have been laughing at these stories my whole life.” WritingFirstsHas BeensBookWholeStoriesWantedFeltLaughingComedyChildhoodSeriousUniqueWhole LifeComicLevityUnique Things Author:Moshe Kasher
“My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.” YearsSelfChildhoodSelf EsteemSeriousOvercomingAbuseDecadesEsteemBullyingTake MeCrushedThrough The Years Author:Bryant H. McGill
“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.” IfsChildrenPlayRealityEducationChildhoodSeriousReliefChildren Playing Author:Fred Rogers
“Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.” ChildrenProblemSocialCommonCitiesViolenceChildhoodExampleSeriousRelatedBullyingRefugeeDomestic ViolenceFamineDeprivationWartimeInner City Author:Robert Winston
“I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.” YearsWantedChildhoodSeriousDrawsFormerComicNerdCollectors Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.” PeopleLife IsNamesChildhoodSeriousAll ThingsComplicatedPetFormalRemindersRemnantsNamesakePet Names Author:Jhumpa Lahiri