Child Quotes
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Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
Mara Wilson
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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
Kailash Satyarthi
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For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
Forest Whitaker
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You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
Oliver Platt
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Think about it: whether your child is tiny or college-age or anywhere in between, verbal put-downs are a subtle but very real form of child abuse.
Anne Ortlund
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It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
Naomi Watts
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
Damien Hirst
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
Ben Affleck
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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
Bebe Rexha
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If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.
Kate Winslet
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Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.
Kate Williams
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If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.
Nick Joaquín
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
Allen Toussaint
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When you go to heaven you can be what you like and I intend to be a child.
Bosie
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Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
Wallace Stegner
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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
Hailey Gates
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
Ben Harper
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
Plato
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz