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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

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

(Cartoon caption I never really rallied after the birth of my first child. — James Thurber

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter. — Hideo Kojima

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents. — Muhtar Kent

I didn't know I'd ever be able to love my second child like I love my first; she came out, and I was amazed I could love them both equally. — Brad D. Smith

Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

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

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

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet. — Jurgen Prochnow

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born. — Jeremy Lloyd

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

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact. — Joan Aiken

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more. — Flora Thompson

I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child. — Robert Kazinsky

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

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

The first day of the rest of my life. — Lee Child

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough. — Fran Lebowitz

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook. — Yves Rossy

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

This new Caleb was a replacement child. The couple had lost their first Caleb, a cheerful little Four. — Lois Lowry

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

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

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying. — Arabella Weir

My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42. — Janine Di Giovanni

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. — Harry Mathews

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

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child. — Anthony Horowitz

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix. — Peg Bracken

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

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978. — Rebecca MacKinnon

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 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

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

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself. — Florence Welch

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Spring-time's harbinger. — Francis Beaumont

Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired. — Lee Child

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

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

What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence? — Kathy L. Patrick

I'm a child of the early nineties. Eddie Vedder and my right hand gave me my first orgasm. — Tiffany Reisz

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

Where are the deputies?'
'On their way up to the first-aid post.'
'What happened to them?'
'I did. — Lee Child

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. — Isabel Allende

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. — Quintilian

you're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child. — Elizabeth Noble

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

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

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped. — Kenzaburo Oe

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

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

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place. — Danny Bonaduce

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted. — Robert Breault

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

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.' — Julie Andrews

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