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In the confusion of your first close encounter, you forget the lyrics to "Voodoo Child. — W.H. Mumfrey

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

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place. — Malorie Blackman

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. — John Ruskin

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

There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, "Who is here the sheykh?" he would answer him "I am he. — Charles M. Doughty

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

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

One survey conducted in 2010 estimated that the average parent spends $6,800 on baby items before a child's first birthday.7.9 — Charles Duhigg

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

But there's nothing like your first {child}. They grow up so fast. — Garth Stein

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

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible. — Josette Sheeran

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

Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child . — Revathi Sankaran

He was caught somewhere between his mother's last kiss and the first kiss he would give his child, between the war that was and would be — Jonathan Safran Foer

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

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. — Maria Montessori

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

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness. — Josh Billings

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

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

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

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. — Stephen Fry

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ... — Asa Don Brown

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning. — Flannery O'Connor

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. — Angela Carter

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

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

When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself. — Barbara Walters

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. — Philip Wylie

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents. — William Stolzenburg

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

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult. — Maria Montessori

Your child's future was the first to go with budget cuts. — Lupe Fiasco

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example. — Albert Schweitzer

When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked. — Anthony Horowitz

You are a woman, let them see your fire — Alicia D'Aversa

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. — George Herbert

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

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world. — Malcolm X

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time. — Bill Brandt

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. — Kevin Leman

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time. — Joakim Zander

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

When a child is in crisis, parents should have a role and a voice. They should be the first to help, not the last to know. — George W. Bush

I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage. — Brooke Shields

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time. — Arnold Bennett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. — Christian Morgenstern

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

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

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

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

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

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder. — Joseph Cornell