Child Quotes
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
Forest Whitaker
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
M. J. Rose
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
Kailash Satyarthi
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A lot of people had a misconception that I would be the perfect poster child for Islam. So I got a lot of Instagram comments like, 'Oh, you don't have your neck covered, you're not a Muslim!' My thing is, stop judging women, especially if you're a man, because you don't know the responsibility that comes with wearing a hijab.
Halima Aden
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Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
Hailee Steinfeld
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A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
Kate Middleton
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
Vince Cable
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
Felicia Day
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If a woman is old enough to push a ten-pound child through her birth canal, she can hear words like ‘penis’ and ‘cervix.’ These are medical terms, Miss Charingford, not obscenities.
Courtney Milan
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I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
Kamala Harris
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
Gail Sheehy
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
Gaby Hoffmann
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
Malala Yousafzai
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Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.
Flannery O'Connor
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I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
Flavor Flav
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I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.
Karen Thompson Walker
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
Paloma Faith
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
Talulah Riley
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
Rachel Cusk
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
Nanci Griffith
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
Maggie Rowe
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
Tammy Blanchard
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus