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As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.
— Shaquille O'Neal
You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child.
— Robert C. Martin
She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.
— Christine Feehan
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.
— Deepak Chopra
I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
— Jessica Lange
I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
— Joe Frank
Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?
— Ann Voskamp
First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.
— Amit Kalantri
Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.
— Donna Woolfolk Cross
It's not important," Silena insisted. "We have to find Charlie!"
Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery. — Rick Riordan
Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery. — Rick Riordan
Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child .
— Revathi Sankaran
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
— Francis Bacon
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
— John D. Voelker
I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.
— Anna Benson
You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.
— Raymond E. Feist
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
— Pablo Picasso
from the time a child walks until about the first
grade, one of the main tasks parents have is to keep their kids alive — Heaven Is For Real
grade, one of the main tasks parents have is to keep their kids alive — Heaven Is For Real
Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
A child's first teacher is its mother.
— Peng Liyuan
In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in ours.
— Katharine Graham
A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I stand alone, a woman, a girl, and a child.
Unsuccessful at my first attempts of a poem
I am miserable when I fail. — Abigail George
Unsuccessful at my first attempts of a poem
I am miserable when I fail. — Abigail George
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
The person your child becomes is a product of two things. The first is his life experience. The second is how he interacts with that experience.
— Tedd Tripp
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.
— Peg Bracken
Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
— Anthony Horowitz
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.
— Anderson Cooper
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 graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
— Harry Mathews
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
— Antonin Scalia
The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.
— Stephen D. Krashen
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
— Angela Carter
The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.
— Robert Carlyle
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
— Sigmar Polke
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
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
— Stephen Fry
Commissioner Harris at the far end stared along the mad pathway. This was his first child and it had already become a murderer.
— Michael Ondaatje
Poetry is like ... first all you have is ...
A line weaving through your mind
Like the tail of a child's kite
Unfettered by reason or rhyme. — Vaddey Ratner
A line weaving through your mind
Like the tail of a child's kite
Unfettered by reason or rhyme. — Vaddey Ratner
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-like level. Imagine adult focus for 7 yrs.
— Ace Antonio Hall
Maybe that was the answer to good parenting - pretending the first child was the second.
— Emma Straub
The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.
— Rick Riordan
When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.
— Alexander Sutherland Neill
I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
— Lee Child
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
— Christian Morgenstern
Home is a child's first and most important classroom.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence?
— Kathy L. Patrick
Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.
— Barbara Bush
I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
— Carol Bartz
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.
— Joseph Cornell
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.
— Matisyahu
As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.
— Chelsea Cain
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
— Benjamin Franklin
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
— Wernher Von Braun
I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
— Katharine Hepburn
The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.
— Frederick Lenz
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
— Maria Montessori
Irene Finney filled the void with a child not loved then lost, but first lost, then loved.
— Louise Penny
I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
— Dirk Benedict
Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired.
— Lee Child
There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ... — Walt Whitman
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ... — Walt Whitman
This new Caleb was a replacement child. The couple had lost their first Caleb, a cheerful little Four.
— Lois Lowry
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
— Henri Matisse
I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.
— Zoe Kazan
His impulsive buss had been as beautiful as a first kiss to a child. And, she felt, as important.
— Sarah Winter
The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.
— Flora Thompson
Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Spring-time's harbinger. — Francis Beaumont
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Spring-time's harbinger. — Francis Beaumont
I was a child when I first saw 'Vertigo,' and it was very disturbing because I didn't really understand what was going on.
— Allen Coulter
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
— Michael Jackson
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
— Adrienne Rich
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
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.
— Fran Lebowitz
Where are the deputies?'
'On their way up to the first-aid post.'
'What happened to them?'
'I did. — Lee Child
'On their way up to the first-aid post.'
'What happened to them?'
'I did. — Lee Child
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
— Steven Spielberg
I'm a child of the early nineties. Eddie Vedder and my right hand gave me my first orgasm.
— Tiffany Reisz