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And then I thought: perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so no one was a greater father than I. — Nicole Krauss

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child. — Augusten Burroughs

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke. — Assata Shakur

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong. — Truman Capote

Besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child. — Bryce Courtenay

He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child, - like — Harriet Beecher Stowe

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done. — George Carlin

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. — Diana Ross

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child. — Amy N. Stewart

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!' — Natsuki Takaya

I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ. — Frederick William Robertson

Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves. — George R R Martin

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

The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold! — Israelmore Ayivor

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like. — Philip Larkin

I can feel myself holding a child, thought Joanna. Sleep, my child, sleep, I tell you. The child is warm and I am sad. — Clarice Lispector

If pretending to know was childish and pretending not to know was adult, then Punpun thought that he was still probably just a child. — Inio Asano

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances. — Michala Petri

As a child, however, I knew so many African Americans working in science, math, and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did. My — Margot Lee Shetterly

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it. — Allen Toussaint

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother
pure, transparent, incapable of deception. — Rhonda Riley

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people. — Keegan-Michael Key

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying. — Anthony Liccione

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later. — Reynolds Price

I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies ... — Neil Gaiman

She thought the best way to feed her child was to use a slingshot. - Wiley Cantrell — Nick Wilgus

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation. — Karl Lagerfeld

Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child. — Jodi Picoult

What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn't thought he saw Peter Pan's sailing ship in the sky? I will teach you to see that ship. — Roberto Cotroneo

I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome. — Johnny Depp

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion. — Eberhard Arnold

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things ... I must be scientific. — Philip K. Dick

But, objectively, beyond the level of thought, the drunk on the street corner is equally a child of God. — Chris Matakas

Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers. — Alan Hollinghurst

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

The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn. — George R R Martin

The child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past. — Cormac McCarthy

As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do. — Sheryl Sandberg

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. — Truman Capote

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children. — E. M. Forster

As a child, I was happy without wanting to be. I mean, I never thought about whether I wanted to be happy again, I just was. — Nicolas Barreau

I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty. — 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

As a child I was afraid of death. I was not afraid to die, but every time I thought of death I shuddered. — Elie Wiesel

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 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

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die. — Maurice Sendak

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. — Amanda Hocking

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult. — Lemony Snicket

Having a child, I thought, was something you should actively want, crave, even. It was not a venture for the ambivalent or passionless. — Hanya Yanagihara

Children think around corners. — Jacob M. Held

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things. — Rita Dove

I thought you wanted to help the child.
I'll help her to help herself. That is my way. — Terry Pratchett

I always thought that you having my child was our destiny,bt i can't even vibe with you sexually — Kanye West

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual. — Flannery O'Connor

Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and — Henning Mankell

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was. — Guy Davenport

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues — Alexandre Dumas-fils

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness. — Kate Morton

Folly is a child of power. — Barbara W. Tuchman

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, thought as a child, behaved as a child. But when I became a woman, I put away manly things. — Gregory Benford