Child Quotes
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I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.
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Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
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As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
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When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.
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Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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I was a poster child... for birth control!
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17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
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As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.
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I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
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Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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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!
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I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.
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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.
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I'm like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.
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When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.
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I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.
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I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
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Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
