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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child. — Gail Simmons

I loved horses and horse books as a child. — Meg Rosoff

As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order. — Shaquille O'Neal

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside. — Joyce Carol Oates

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs. — Nathan Parsons

I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career. — Chika Anadu

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child. — Frank Capra

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child. — Pythagoras

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone. — Anthony Hopkins

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck. — John Carroll

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. — Jean-Pierre De Caussade

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. — Criss Jami

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child. — Ted Kooser

As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt. — P.G. Wodehouse

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year ... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child. — George A. Sheehan

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer. — Walter Dean Myers

Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child? — Steven Tyler

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference. — Natasha Leggero

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad! — Kara Walker

I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up. — Keeley Hawes

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn. — Lady Gaga

He's worth having. All I got was two fake lawsuits." "Seems like Morgan's value just went down, as part of a credible — Lee Child

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion - or you shall learn nothing. — Gerald R. Ford

Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It — Mercedes Lackey

a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart. — Michel Faber

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me. — Alexander Shulgin

As a child, Allan had been thought to be suspicious of people who didn't have a drink when the opportunity arose. — Jonasson, Jonas

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse. — Franco Nero

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one. — Patrick Rothfuss

I have always been motivated by a greater good. As a child, I was taught by my parents to be good and to do good at all times and in all ways! — James May

As a child I wanted to become an architect. — Chris Hughes

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime. — Derwin L. Gray

As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time. — Julia Child

The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten. — T.H. White

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies. — Hayley Mills

As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan. — Kate Williams

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. — Victor Hugo

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer — Mal Peet

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. — Roddy Doyle

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. — Eddie Bernice Johnson

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman. — Barry Humphries

As a child I was an imaginary playmate — T

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. — Leo Buscaglia

But there is probably nothing in the world as determined as a child with a dream — Donald Spoto

I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes. — Victoria Legrand

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing. — Pippa Evans

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were. — Paul Johnson

Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married. — Ted Olson

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child. — Baden Powell De Aquino

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

I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't. — Kate Beckinsale

I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought! — Stephen Richards

His impulsive buss had been as beautiful as a first kiss to a child. And, she felt, as important. — Sarah Winter

When I was a child I spoke like a child, thought like a child, acted as a child. But now that I am and adult i put my childish ways behind me. — Anonymous

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes. — Elton John

That dude's as guilty as a baby with a soggy diaper! — Noah Child

I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him. — George Carlin

Even as a child, I found a way to survive. — Eartha Kitt

If you embrace your dreams gently, you'll wake up in the morning as a satisfied human child. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer. — Brittany Murphy

As a child I would get scared with those bad dreams
now incomplete dreams haunt me! — Subhasis Das

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child. — Ashwin Sanghi

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult. — Charles Spurgeon

Lancelet's skin was so soft - she had thought all men were like Arthur, sunburnt and hairy, but his body was smooth as a child's. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. — Cory Booker

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. — W.C. Fields

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. — Gunter Grass

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living. — Virginia Woolf

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. — Claire Danes

A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta's child could be safe. — Suzanne Collins

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself. — Mark Twain

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future. — David Johansen

I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them. — Jackie Gleason

I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time. — Amber Le Bon

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not. — Fiona Apple

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. — Thelma Golden

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal — Severn Cullis-Suzuki

We are all impatient as long as we are imperfect. It is the mark of the child that he is in a violent hurry where men are steady. — Anonymous

I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child. — Robert Stromberg

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size. — Don Knotts

Even as a child she had hated children; she still did. — Anthony Marra

As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing. — Euzhan Palcy

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. — Hermann Hesse

I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy. — Cai Guo-Qiang

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child. — Nigella Lawson

A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student. — Bill Cosby

While Growing Up As A Child, One Of My Favorite Television Stars Was, Mr. Rogers. — Chris Mentillo

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. — Gary Hamel

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor. — JoAnn Ross

Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's. — Eimear McBride

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent. — Dave Pelzer

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place. — Penn Badgley

I don't ever want to bring a child into this world without being as healthy as I can be; it's as simple as that. — LeAnn Rimes

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window. — Gail Caldwell

Lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott