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Child Quotes

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

Child Never Pets Been Around

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

David LaChapelle

Mother Grief Losing Child Loss More

Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

Child Church Christmas Sound Begin

I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she's from. It's almost like playing a child's game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me.

Edward Enninful

Character Child Me Fashion Game You

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

Child Leave Left Behind Wants

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

Home Grief Losing Child Parents

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Responsibility Child Parent Talking

There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.

Life Path Child Think Bad Down

I was a really girly girl when I was younger. I only wore pink until I was at least 12. Think of me in culottes with a Bagpuss T-shirt and frizzy hair. Oh, and I was a fat child. It was bad news.

Girl Child Me Hair Pink Think

I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.

Passion Child Think See Month Gone

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

James M. Barrie

Child Believe Down Dead Fairy Says

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

Wife Child Me First Our Priority

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

David Copperfield

Child Parents Poor Same Room Only

The Libertadores is sensational, but the Champions League... The first time I heard the anthem was a really special feeling. It's like being in a video game; it's living the dream of every child.

Time Child Game Dream Champions

'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Time Child Parents Blessed Name

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

Community Children Child People Feel

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Ertharin Cousin

Family Father Mother Child People

I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

Child Attention Conversation Last

Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it.

Alexandra Adornetto

Child Parents Meaning House Down Go

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

Great Child Behavior Doing You Say

When you grow up with siblings, you can be like, 'Isn't this weird? Isn't this funny? Do we agree on this, or do we disagree?' You have some point of reference, some touchstone. When you grow up an only child, everything is internalized.

Funny Child Grow Weird You Grow Up

I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care of a white man's child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.

Work Woman Death Man Child Believe

As a child, my sister and I had very fruitful imaginations, and I would think that I wanted to be one profession or I'd want to have this experience in life. I realized it's not because I actually wanted to be a Coast Guard helicopter rescue pilot or something like that - I just enjoyed the idea of playing it.

Life Experience Child Sister Think

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

Quality Child Writing Garden Fantasy

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