“It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child's face could turn from peach to beetroot.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great,… — Jerry Hall Copy Share Image
In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child.… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun'… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby… Each adult wishes that he or she… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money… — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You… — Andre Bauer Copy Share Image
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything. — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and… — Barbara Ann Kipfer Copy Share Image
The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able… — Koichi Tanaka Copy Share Image
Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
People often ask authors where their ideas come from, and often authors say they don't know. But I do know about this… — Sam McBratney Copy Share Image
Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
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