458 quotes found
“As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.”
“I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.”
“I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.”
“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
“People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.”
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
“It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.”
“As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.”
“While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.”
“Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.”
“As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!”
“My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!”
“My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.”
“I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.”
“When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the...”
“I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anx...”
“When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.”
“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in S...”
“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”
“Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.”
