Wild Child Quotes

• Between '89 and '93 I was a wild child, a real nutter.

  Rhona Mitra

  Children, Real

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• I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'

  Bai Ling

  Children, Crazy, Character

  Disc Dish Interview, www.discdish.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

  Naomi Watts

  Children

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• [My hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likeable bad-boy image. It says, 'I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.'

  Bret Michaels

  Children, Boys, Hair

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• Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Children, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes seriousand studious at six all seem to surprise their parents. It is difficult to let go of one's image of a child, say goodbye to the child a parent knows, and get accustomed to this slightly new child inhabiting the known child's body.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Baby

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• The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

  Emmylou Harris

  Children, Hair, People

  "An Exclusive Interview With Emmylou Harris: ‘Time Is Light When I’m Making Music’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

  Kiki Dee

  Sports, Running, Children

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• I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Taught, Kind

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• Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

  Perry Farrell

  Children, Want, Hell

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• 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

  Children, Motherhood, Flirting

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• I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

  Clive Tyldesley

  Children, Behaviour, Brown

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• I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

  Margaret Atwood

  Summer, Children, Fall

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