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Child Quotes

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Michael Morpurgo

Child Short Remember Attention Young

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

Myself Child Comedy Friends Bathroom

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

Phylicia Rashad

Perseverance Myself Child Negative

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Life Children Liar Child Parents

Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

Marianne Elliott

Child Doing Play Having

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

Roger Bannister

Great Pain Child People Me Energy

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Work Man Child Road Think Living

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Growth Quality Child Me Potential

Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine and starring in her own regularly scheduled Martha Stewart television show. Martha saw herself as Betty Crocker, Julia Child, Miss Manners, Emily Post, and Rupert Murdoch all rolled into one juicy pie.

Jerry Oppenheimer

Dreams Child Thinking America Pie

As a child, we lived in flats, and I was never allowed pets.

Tim Pigott-Smith

Child Never Lived Pets Flats

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

Music Child College White Got Kids

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

Imagination Child Important Leave Us

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

Michael Shannon

Sports Child Growing Up Trying Want

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Child Universe Classic Priest Middle

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

Child People Me Dinner Listening

When a child is born, the exact moment it draws its first breath should be noted, as that moment, and not the time of delivery, is the time of birth from the astrologer's point of view.

Time Moment Child View Point Of View

What I did do a lot as a child was read, and I particularly remember reading all the 'Hardy Boys' books, a set of history books called the 'Landmark Books,' and a series of science books called the 'All About Books.'

Science History Child Reading Books

I was fortunate that I was an only child. I had two parents who I really cared about, and they cared about me, so I got off to a good start.

Good Child Parents Me Start Two

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.

Home School Child Mind Matter May

I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.

Brian Tyree Henry

Business Child Watching Programming

Genius is sorrow's child.

Child Genius Sorrow

I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor.

Timothee Chalamet

Child Think Actor Sure Wants Really

Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything!

Stefano Gabbana

Child Tough Editing Everything Call

No one ever really read to me as a child.

Khaled Hosseini

Child Me Read Ever Really

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