“I was keen to earn my own money from an early age. I had a job as a pa...” — Alice Roberts Quote

“I was keen to earn my own money from an early age. I had a job as a paper girl in my local village when I was about 11 - and when I was a bit older, around 15, I was a waitress.”

“I've wanted to write a book on embryology, that extraordinary journey where you start off as a single cell and end up with a human body, for a general audience for years.”

“I have family connections with Salisbury through my godmother. Her sister lived there, so I have very fond memories of visiting the city as a child.”

“I grew up in the Seventies; my dad is an aeronautical engineer and my mum was an English and arts teacher and for a while my family had to exist on one salary.”

“It seems that humans have been enjoying the taste and health benefits of blackberries for thousands of years. Gathered blackberries have been found at Neolithic sites, while a preserved iron age bog body, known as Haraldskaer Woman, provides definite evidence of blackberry ingestion.”

“I was always the kid who wanted Christmas to not come, because I realized at a pretty early age that no matter what you got, there's always a little bit of a letdown. It's like, 'Oh, gee, I wanted two ponies, not one.'”

“I'm very fortunate that R&B was where I first kind of learned my root in singing. I was able to do more with my voice and find it at an early age and then transform that into country as well.”

“My mom lost her mom at a very early age, and she was so excited to be a mother. Sometimes that can translate into a too-much thing, but in my childhood it was just like, 'I want to enjoy this, and I want my daughter to because I didn't get to enjoy this.'”

“I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.”

“My love of theatre began at a very early age.”

“I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.”