Child Quotes
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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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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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
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Europe without Greece is like a child without a birth certificate.
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Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
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Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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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.
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There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.
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If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.
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As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
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Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.
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I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.
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I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.
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Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!
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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.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
