As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V. S. Naipaul
ChildrenChildWorldNot KnowingUp
My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
K. Flay
ChildMeSomeoneYouLookSerious
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
Elvis Presley
LifeMotherAngryChildMeMy Life
I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.
Sarah Hall
ChildFightingRememberKindUp
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
Adrienne Rich
LifeLoveMotherPassionWarChild
When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
Olga Kurylenko
TimeChildHousePlayGamesNever
We are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that if a child commits an adult crime, that kid is magically transformed into an adult. Consequently, we try juveniles as adults.
Greg Boyle
ChildCrimeTryKidDifficulty
I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
Candice Patton
ChildMeMoviesMoreSomethingRead
I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.
Beyonce Knowles
GoodGoalsWomenChildMeSaying
When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
ChildRecognitionYouCelebration
What do we do to just rebuild and focus on creating a big and inclusive tent, where we're focusing on making sure every child gets that fair shot, that every woman gets to compete on a level playing field, that we are true to the core values of our country, and we're making sure that we honor those values?
Valerie Jarrett
FocusWomanChildHonorValuesTrue
I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.
Kailash Satyarthi
SchoolChildWorldFreeDreamEvery
As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.
Elizabeth Berg
MotherTreeJoyChildMeThought
I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.
Rebecca Stead
ChildrenChildWholeBooksStill
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
Darell Hammond
ChildrenChildRealityTestAccept
As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.
Olivia Colman
FearI AmChildThoughtTrueWill
It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.
Gerry Adams
ChildThinkHardAnythingDelight
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
Caitlin Moran
WomanChildFreeLongDesireWill
Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
Bernice Weissbourd
FamilyLiveCommunityChildComeHe
When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.
Keegan-Michael Key
LifeWorkHomeLiveMorningChild
My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
Tamra Davis
ChildMoviesHollywoodGrandparents
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
ChildSlaveryYouResponsibleBuying
People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
Elizabeth Edwards
GreatBlessingChildPeopleFind
I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.
Regina King
LearningMistakesChildMomParent
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