Child Quotes
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
Nathaniel Branden
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
Tatum O'Neal
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
Kamala Harris
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
Barbara Mikulski
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Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
Maggie Gallagher
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Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Heraclitus
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As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
Pardis Sabeti
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I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
Nawal El Saadawi
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The idea is that someone is watching that child. Layers of protection are for when that fails.
Nancy Kassebaum
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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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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I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.
Garth Nix
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
Parker Posey
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I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
Saint Patrick
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
Irwin Redlener
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I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
Usher
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I don't think it's fair that we cannot guarantee every child in this country a great education and that, in New York City, in some cases, your child is at risk in some part because of the policies the union endorses.
Brown Campbell
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
Zachery Ty Bryan
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You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.
Oriana Fallaci
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.
Gautama Buddha
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
Aaron Lazar
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Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.
Katha Pollitt
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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!
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