Child Quotes
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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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 don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.
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Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.
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Europe without Greece is like a child without a birth certificate.
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When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.
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It's not just about you taking care of 'your' child. It's about you taking care of these children.
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
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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.
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An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
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As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.
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The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.
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My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
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If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will.
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
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I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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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.
