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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life. -- S. E. Hinton
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. -- Roddy Doyle
I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body. -- Steven Seagal
Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do. -- Emily Oster
I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. -- Joan Didion
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. -- Maurice Sendak
I was no good at being a child. -- A. S. Byatt
When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist. -- Isamu Noguchi
That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu -- Ruth Reichl
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. -- Cesare Pavese
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me. -- Prince Harry
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason. -- Anthony Trollope
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. -- Robert Smith
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine. -- Margaret Sanger
There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children . -- Cesare Pavese
I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life. -- Marianne Wiggins
I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not. -- Molly Crabapple
It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful. -- Ricky Schroder
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. -- Liza Minnelli
Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid. -- Ann Douglas
I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time. -- Jan Brett
My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad. -- Gerard Butler
I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas. -- Martin Freeman
I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long. -- Tom Baker
I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy. -- David Rakoff
Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child. -- Robert Kazinsky
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world. -- Janine di Giovanni
Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant. -- Bow Wow
I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument. -- Lola Kirke
Being an ex-child star is not a given. -- Danny Bonaduce
Being an only child is a disease in itself. -- G. Stanley Hall
I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy. -- Pat Morita
Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there. -- Thom Yorke
I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor. -- Jenny Lewis
Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks. -- Danny Bonaduce
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. -- Carol Ann Duffy
I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess. -- Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone. -- Cindy Williams
Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. -- Mayim Bialik
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied. -- will.i.am
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank. -- Martin Lewis Perl
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe. -- Julia Child
Being a child is in itself a profession. -- Clifton Fadiman
I'll just carry on being a dated flower child. -- Robert Plant
I was always busy doing something, being an only child. -- Paul Smith
Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully. -- Heber J. Grant
I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy, -- Pat Morita
In fact, a child is not even considered a human being. -- Nick Nolte
Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency. -- Kevin DeYoung
Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. -- Richard Louv
He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt) -- Clara Schumann
Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child. -- Gautama Buddha
We accept women being complete c-nts if they're doing it for a child. -- Natalie Dormer
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence. -- Jerome Bruner
I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child. -- Dawn Angelique
My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me -- Kim Soo-hyun
Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both. -- Michael Josephson
Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child. -- Dennis Garvin
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. -- Maria Montessori
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. -- James M. Barrie
Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. -- Hyman Rickover
Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time. -- Andrew Wyeth
It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around. -- Gerry Adams
I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. -- Paloma Faith
Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. -- Jodi Picoult
Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child. -- Jarod Kintz
As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose. -- Shukla Bose
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. -- Jodi Picoult
Embrace, nurture, love and celebrate the child in self and others; because being child is being a future. -- Vishwas Chavan
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see. -- Robert Charles Wilson
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. -- Kirsten Dunst
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child. -- Amanda Burton
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form. -- Maria Montessori
Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime. -- Derwin L. Gray
I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child. -- Isabelle Adjani
I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. -- Roddy McDowall
The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him. -- Maria Montessori
I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child. -- Paul Nurse
It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child. -- Jarod Kintz
To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being. - Arya -- Christopher Paolini
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier. -- Orlando Bloom
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child. -- Maria Montessori
Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family. -- Annie Lennox
I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited. -- Lana Del Rey
Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all? -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student. -- Billy Eichner
I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed. -- Dustin Hoffman
I feel like little kids should and do steal money. That is a major part of being a young child. -- Cameron Esposito
I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad. -- Luke Evans
A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child. -- Amy N. Stewart
One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child. -- David Suzuki
If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that. -- Daniel Pauly
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. -- Charles Lamb
Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online. -- Felicia Day
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. -- Christian Morgenstern
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' -- Christopher Meloni
The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession. -- Bong Joon-ho
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask. -- Edwidge Danticat
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy. -- Leonard Peikoff
I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program. -- George McGovern
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. -- Daniel Dennett
Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents. -- Lily Rabe
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared. -- Jena Malone
For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared. -- Jena Malone
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. -- Sloan Wilson
Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they? -- Michael Gambon
It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God. -- Sheila Walsh
Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's. -- Deepak Chopra
Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away. -- Storm Constantine
I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect. -- Dee Snider
Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area. -- Wil Wheaton

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