Dolls Quotes

• I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Work, Kids

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• Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

  Kathryn Lasky

  World, Intention, Deceitful

  Kathryn Lasky (2013). “The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769”, p.182, Scholastic Inc.

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• Dolls are safe companions.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Safe, Companion

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• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  Verne Troyer

  Double Standard, Double Me

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

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• Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Kings, Children

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Creepy, Mind

  Stephen King (2016). “Desperation”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

  Vanna White

  Barbie Dolls, Enjoy, Getting Dressed

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

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• There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

  John Ortberg

  Rags, Treasure, Littles

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• To see a doll of yourself is very weird and very neat at the same time.

  Thuy Trang

  Neat

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• The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

  Johnny Thunders

  Attitude, Great Attitude, Ifs

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• It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

  Rumer Godden

  Done, Sometimes, Anxious

  Rumer Godden (2015). “The Dolls' House”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World

  Shelley Winters

  Barbie Dolls, Barbie, World

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• Dolls are like small dead people.

  Nora Roberts

  People, Dead People

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• To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Real, Childhood

  Annie Besant (2009). “Autobiographical Sketches”, p.272, Broadview Press

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• People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

  Emmanuel Lewis

  Real, People, Different

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• Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Mean, Play

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• A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Mom And Daughter, Motherhood

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• Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  People, Scare, Collections

  "Fashion diary" by Rachel Holmes and Kate Carter, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2008.

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• I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.

  Emma Watson

  Voodoo, Gross, Feels

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• A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Children, Unhappy

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• I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

  Linda Evans

  Sister, Mom, Mother

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• I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

  Ruth Handler

  Successful, Barbie Dolls, Barbie

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• Little girls love dolls. They just don't love dolls clothes

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Girl, Parenting, Clothes

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• We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

  Sharon Stone

  Barbie Dolls, Way, Behave

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• We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

  F. H. Bradley

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Girl

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 23, 1930.

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