Children Quotes - Page 32

• I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Missing, Feelings, Wake Up

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• I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.

  Isabel Lucas

  Couple, Years, Earth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

  Richard Louv

  Rocks, Fishing, Space

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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

  Adriana Lima

  Kids, Doctors, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Real, Parent, Royal

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• I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Running, Country, Dark

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

  Margaret Mahy

  Writing, Long, Support

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• Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.

  Michael Madsen

  Your Children, Our Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.

  Michael McCaul

  Drug, Needs, Want

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• Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Mean, Priorities, Balance

  "‘The Artist’ Star Penelope Ann Miller: ‘It’s A Love Letter To Cinema’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

  Roddy McDowall

  Actors, Study

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• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  Samantha Morton

  Mind, Today's Society, Violence

  "Samantha Morton: 'I was abused for a long time and I retaliated'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.

  Todd McFarlane

  Years, Three, Littles

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• A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Growing Up, Kids, Years

  "Soul Man: Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones". Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

  John Noble

  Regret, Writing, Years

  "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.

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• We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Giving, Hopeful, Hopeful Future

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• Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

  Janet Napolitano

  Educational, School, Opportunity

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• People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

  Jeremy Northam

  Kids, People, Sake

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• Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Optimism, Simplicity, Wish

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• I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Animal, Adults, Ease

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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

  Only Child, Youngest Child

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• More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

  Richard Neal

  Fall, Safety, Unemployment

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• I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

  Denise Van Outen

  Running, Thinking, Doors

  "Denise Van Outen interview: I wanted to be a young mum but it wasn't to be". www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2011.

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• I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

  John Otway

  Stars, Ambitious, Fans

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• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  Felicity Jones

  Growing Up, Character, Dressing Up

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