Youngest Child Quotes

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Grandma, Grandmother

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!

  Yasser Arafat

  Children, Blood, Land

  "The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History" by Andrew Boston, Prometheus Books, (p. 682), 2008.

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• The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Giving, Empathy

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• I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

  Anne McCaffrey

  Children, Writing, School

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• I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

  Paul Nurse

  Children, Only Child

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• I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

  Suzanne Collins

  Brother, Children, Growing Up

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.316, Scholastic Inc.

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• My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

  Steve Irwin

  Memories, Dad, People

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• I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

  Katherine Heigl

  Children, Believe, Play

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• The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Adults, Way

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.1, Seven Stories Press

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• I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

  Paul Giamatti

  Brother, Children, Trouble

  "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Children, Kids, Ducks

  "Garrett Hedlund Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY; Plus an ON THE ROAD Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month.” “Such tenderness for your youngest child,” Hyacinth muttered. “It quite undoes me.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Men, Tears

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Children, Loneliness, Frail

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• A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Fall, Men

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.15, Penguin

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• During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Husband, Children, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.

  Andy Samberg

  Mom, Running, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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• When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cute, Children, Dad

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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