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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 think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child. — Dan Quayle

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents. — Elizabeth McCracken

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. — Sadie Jones

It is easy to be brave when you have a child depending on you. — Nora Roberts

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor

One of the ways I know I shouldn't be online is when I'm looking to get something that I already have in abundance as a child of God. — Sammy Rhodes

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed. — Chris Smith

He wanted her to want him. To need him as he needed her. And if God never saw fit to grant them a child, for him to be enough for her without one. — Mia Marlowe

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be. — Mark Lester

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy. — Etgar Keret

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty. — Julia Child

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring. — Samantha Fox

Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever. — Tadahiko Nagao

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. — Criss Jami

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver. — Mary Karr

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way. — Muhammad Ali

How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt? — Juanita Moore

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. — Richard Dawkins

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother. — Ruth Ahmed

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist. — Thomas Lansing Masson

Only a child believes his rulers have his best interest at heart," he said. "We would be wise to disabuse ourselves of such illusions. — Julie Wu

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child. — A.R. Rahman

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer. — Walter Dean Myers

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. — Mariella Frostrup

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

To be a human being is to be a child of God — M. Bartolo-Abela

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. — Mark Haddon

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion - or you shall learn nothing. — Gerald R. Ford

To the Winds, Victor was a problem child insofar as he refused to be one. — Vladimir Nabokov

I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child. — Alison Goldfrapp

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

A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask. — Da Chen

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

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children. — Austin O'Malley

A child should never be made to feel that sex and/or his/her sexuality is taboo or a mistake. — Asa Don Brown

It takes maturity to be able to laugh
like a child again. — Moffat Machingura

There are so few years to just be a child. — Pamela Druckerman

To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I honestly can't pick a favorite person I like to work with - that would be like choosing a favorite child! — Behati Prinsloo

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead. — Carnie Wilson

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? — Al Capp

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

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants. — Leon Kass

I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child. — Jodi Picoult

A child's dreams should never be discounted, rather uplifted to the stars — Asa Don Brown

The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child. — Deepak Chopra

I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven. — Shan Sa

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children. — Beverly Cleary

Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal blessings. — Martha H. Tingey

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be. — Jane Yolen

The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence. — Miguel Ruiz

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family. — Clare Boothe Luce

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating. — Julia Child

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

There aren't many fathers around here ... If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up. — John Redwood

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life. — Robert Morley

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman. — Barry Humphries

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly. — Henry Taube

As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing. — Euzhan Palcy

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child. — John Grant

I don't ever want to bring a child into this world without being as healthy as I can be; it's as simple as that. — LeAnn Rimes

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

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

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. — Lorna Luft

Something bad happen to a child, you can be sure his daddy gone be off somewhere else. — Hillary Jordan

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. — Billy Graham

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless. — Albert Einstein

Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away — Jeroo Billimoria

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

A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta's child could be safe. — Suzanne Collins

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. — George W. Bush

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

Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space. — Nadia Giosia

I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time. — Amber Le Bon

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done. — Julia Child

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

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry ... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really. — Adriana Lima

It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving. — Nathalie Himmelrich

To be an actor you have to be a child. — Paul Newman

The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome. — Kilroy J. Oldster

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. — Charles Dickens

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. — P. J. O'Rourke

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way. — Foxy Brown

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

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

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity? — Max Lucado

This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake. — Mark Twain

They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child. — Jane Green

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards. — Wallace Stegner

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married. — Ted Olson

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world. — Steven Cojocaru

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one. — Patrick Rothfuss

The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you. — Macklemore

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave. — Frederick Douglass

It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret. — Chris Witty