Children Quotes - Page 36

• I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

  Nicole Kidman

  Men, Years, Two

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• 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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• I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Jobs, Believe, Parent

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• Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Writing, Mind, Needs

  "Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso... we just have to learn how". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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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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• My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Father, My Children

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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 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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• A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

  Michelle Malkin

  School, Phones, Cells

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• I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

  Paula Malcomson

  People, Trying, Speak

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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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• Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Growing Up, Parent, Only Child

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• When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

  Sienna Miller

  Regret, Should Have, Done

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• The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.

  Tia Mowry

  Mom, Baby, Sleep

  "Teen Actress Tia Mowry, Grown Up, Talks Motherhood". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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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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• Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

  John Noble

  Fans, Fandoms, Students

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. May 6, 2011.

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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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• My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

  James Nasmyth

  Father, Giving, Special

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.57, BoD – Books on Demand

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• When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  College, Political, Students

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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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• I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

  Stevie Nicks

  Decision, Musician, Want

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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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