Children Quotes - Page 38

• I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

  Aleksa Palladino

  Hurt, Pain, Hard Times

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• I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

  Archie Panjabi

  Careers, Parent, Supportive

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

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• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  Francine Pascal

  Writing, Play, Small Child

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• So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Mad

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• I was a very shy child.

  Jim Parsons

  Shy

  "Jim Parsons On The Science Of Sheldon, 'Big Bang'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. September 28, 2010.

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• I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

  Jim Parsons

  Religious, Tvs, Fit

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.

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• I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Want, Spend Time, End Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  Natalie Portman

  Kids, Cutting, Hair

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• Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

  Nick Park

  Father, Electric Motors, Broken

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• Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Differences, Insane, Normal

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.

  Tom Perrotta

  Drama, Play, Cities

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• Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

  Trevor Phillips

  Yards, Parks, Prison

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• I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Dream, Creating, Balance

  "HoneyLine: My HoneyLine TV Interview With Kid Rock" by abrielle Reece, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Thinking, Parent, Mentor

  "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Geoffrey Rush" by James Ashwood, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

  Helen Reddy

  Hands, Paper, Serious

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• As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

  Hilary Rosen

  Mother, Home, Talking

  "Hilary Rosen Apologizes To Ann Romney, Calls For End To ‘Faux War’ Against Moms" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

  Melanie Roach

  Challenges, Relief, Autistic

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• I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.

  Melanie Roach

  Mother, Tired, Thinking

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• The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

  Sun Ra

  Men, World, Planets

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• I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

  Ving Rhames

  Media, Poverty, Grew Up

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

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• What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Mother, Father, Bridges

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• Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Successful, Opportunity, Men

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• I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.

  Jessica Seinfeld

  School, Long, Leaving

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• As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Rip, Book, Reading

  "A kind of magic". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2010.

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• As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

  Kiki Smith

  Fun, Artist, Expectations

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