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I was a single mother when my child was little.
— Gloria Allred
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
— Sadie Jones
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
— Bertrand Piccard
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
— 1 Corinthians 13 11
When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
— Assata Shakur
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.
— Philippa Gregory
I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.
— Adrienne Shelly
I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.
— Riccardo Tisci
I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.
— Chika Anadu
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
— Eartha Kitt
I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.
— Mary Stewart
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.
— Vladimir Kramnik
When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a night light.
— Les Dawson
Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child.
— Gwendoline Christie
When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.
— Gwen John
She reached out and stroked my hair just as she had when I was a child. I closed my eyes and let sleep take me, feeling utterly safe.
— Hillary Jordan
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
— Victoria Woodhull
When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"
— Geoff Zanelli
I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.
— Hiroyuki Sanada
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.
— Bill Cosby
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
— K.A. Applegate
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
— Gloria Estefan
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
— Linda Grant
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
— Elvis Presley
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
— James Dyson
When I was a child, I sometimes wondered if you were my guardian angel. Now that I'm older I know that you are.
— Tammara Webber
The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.
— Alexander Shulgin
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
Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.
— Alessia Cara
When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad.
— Joel T. McGrath
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
— James Hansen
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
— P.L. Travers
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
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
My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.
— Brittany Murphy
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
— Harmony Korine
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
When I was a child I remember days that stretched into infinity with the certainty of other infinite days; certain, unhurried and brimmingly full.
— Rumer Godden
When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.
— Jeff Smisek
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
— Heber J. Grant
I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.
— Ines De La Fressange
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
— Jack Kingston
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
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
— Mary Pickford
It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
— Laurence Harvey
I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.
— Craig Ferguson
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 went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.
— Michiel Huisman
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
— Yayoi Kusama
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
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
When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back
— Rodney Dangerfield
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
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.
— Stephen King
Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.
— Leslie Mann
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
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
— Thomas Traherne
I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
— Ron White
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
When I was a child my mother would tell me that people lost soul in two ways: someone could take it from you, or you'd surrender it willingly.
— Tarryn Fisher
I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.
— Joan Rivers
I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.
— Daria Werbowy
When I was a child, I wanted to be ... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.
— Jaime Winstone
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
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
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.
— Joan Larkin
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
— Michelle Dockery
I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.
— Beth Moore
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
— Nadine Gordimer
Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.
— Mark Gatiss
When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.
— Alice Walker
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
— Julia Roberts
Had you crawled out from under my bed when I was a child, I would have bludgeoned you to death with my father's mace." Brishen
— Grace Draven
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
— Maya Lin
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
— Julie Christie
When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress.
— Stephen Furst
When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.
— Patti Davis
I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.
— Martin Yan
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
When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories.
— Neil Gaiman
When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.
— Marilynne Robinson
When I was a child ... Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.
— Bertrand Russell
When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.
— Sandra Cisneros
When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
— Donald Hall
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
— Rokia Traore