Child Quotes
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I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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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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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
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People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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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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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
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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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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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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.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
