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You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.
I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
There's something about a toy to a child where the relationship is real, where the kid is playing, and it's just really amazing.
Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.
When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.
Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.
I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.
I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was a child myself!
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.
What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
As a child, I wanted to be a singer, but that was only because I thought I could sing. I'd sing along to Brandy and Usher and *NSYNC.
I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.
Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.
I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.
I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.