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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 was a single mother when my child was little. — Gloria Allred

Child never allowed to give would surely become a self-indulgent adult, his happiness dependent upon whatever was put into his outstretched palm. — Lawana Blackwell

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy. — Bertrand Piccard

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine

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

The misfortune of man is that he was once a child. — Frantz Fanon

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child. — Kristanna Loken

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

They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer. — John Connolly

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults. — Nancy Willard

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. — Liza Minnelli

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've been firmly grounded in reality since I was a child, and I'm still waiting for it to impress me. — Jessica Conoley

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

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

You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you? — Lisa Dekis

The line between Hope and Despair was exactly that: a line, in the road, — Lee Child

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

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be. — Peter Matthiessen

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. — Julia Roberts

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too. — Miranda Cosgrove

Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal "disturbed" child, not an alien. — Doris Lessing

daughter?' 'She was a beautiful child.' Mrs Williams's eyes grew misty with the quasi-maternal feelings of a procuress. — Ross Macdonald

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

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home. — Charlie McDermott

I was a very unique child. — Kat Dennings

A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet. — Dennis L. McKiernan

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone. — Jeff Buckley

I checked my appearance, to make sure I was fit for public consumption. — Lee Child

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me. — Michiel Huisman

When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being. — Donald Hall

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

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward. — Ron Moody

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself. — Charles Dickens

I knew I was an unwanted child when my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. — Joan Rivers

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

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy. — Sammy Davis Jr.

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

When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston. — Solange Knowles

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. — Camille Paglia

There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ... — Walt Whitman

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina. — Chris Hughes

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

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

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

I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn't know what to do with me. — Jay Ryan

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

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

If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child. — Charlie Rose

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one. — Catherine M. Wilson

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends. — Ian McEwan

Reading the books, I've always loved reading. It was easier than talking. Like a child playing games. — Elise Kova

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt. — Elizabeth Taylor

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child. — Craig Ferguson

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

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

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 always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child. — Graydon Carter

My father was in charge of managing the farm. — Julia Child

Trout was deflated - neutralized. He dropped his arms, became child-like now. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. — Walter Mosley

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child. — Martha Plimpton

All those years when I was a child, longing for it to be 'my turn,' it hadn't ever occurred to me that my turn would be over, by and by. — Anne Tyler

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

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. — Billy Wilder

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous. — Julia Child

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve. — Marcia Gay Harden

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

was a meticulous guy, right? — Lee Child

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene. — Merry Clayton

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

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day. — Yayoi Kusama

He was six years old this time, and ancient. — Red Tash

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

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

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child. — Rokia Traore

I was an only child. — Richard Pryor

Nothing changed the fact that she was a lost, skinny child in another foreign place, with more foreign people. Alone. — Markus Zusak

When the child was a child, it didn't know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one. — Peter Handke

He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly. — Rebecca McNutt

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry. — Roberto Cavalli

She was of the Fae. She did not worry over right or wrong. She was a creature of pure desire, much like a child. — Patrick Rothfuss

As a child I was an imaginary playmate — T

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young. — Candace Parker

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it. — Hilary Mantel

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

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot. — Nobu Matsuhisa

From a child I was taught to forgive and forget, but it's difficult to forget these things, the loss of parents, of children and grandchildren. — Ann Leckie

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. — Jeffrey Eugenides