Child Quotes
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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If a woman is old enough to push a ten-pound child through her birth canal, she can hear words like ‘penis’ and ‘cervix.’ These are medical terms, Miss Charingford, not obscenities.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
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Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.
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Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
