Child Quotes
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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?
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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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.
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When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
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My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
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Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Lacking older siblings, the oldest or only child identifies primarily with her parents, conforming to their ideals and demands, not the least reason being that she no one with whom to share those demands. Since firstborns try to live up to the expectations of adults- teachers' as well as parents'- rather than that of peers, they are likely to learn more and to bring home better report cards than younger siblings. Thus firstborns pave the way for younger siblings, setting the standards against which they are measured and measure themselves.
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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
