Child Quotes
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
N. Scott Momaday
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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.
Zadie Smith
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
Karan Johar
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Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.
Hannah Murray
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
Nancy Grace
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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
Lady Gregory
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If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.
Kassie DePaiva
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
Zig Ziglar
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Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.
Kapil Sibal
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
Karin Slaughter
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I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
Malcolm McDowell
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Francine Pascal
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
Bebe Neuwirth
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As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
Natalie Dormer
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Salman Rushdie
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
Idina Menzel
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
Vernon Howard
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Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
Edwidge Danticat
