A child, she knew has, no choice where God will send it.

“She smiled, pretending to be unaware like every child, but she knew. Children know things even if they can’t explain them in words.”

— Cara Ruegg

It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

You can laugh, but since I was a child I knew that I was going to be a well-known singer/songwriter, that was something I…

— Shakira

Even as a child, I knew what the symbol of the Congress was.

— Suresh Gopi

“A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask.”

— Da Chen

From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she…

— Pete Burns

“Even from those very first hours, Claire was an easy and quiet child. It was as though she already knew that she could not…

— Edwidge Danticat

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

— Patti Smith

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into…

— V. S. Naipaul

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

— Claire Danes

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

— Jackie Chan

“Even then, only a child, she knew she had to pretend to be someone else -- for her parents, for their customers, for everyone…

— Leslie Parry

“imagine that it were given back to me to be the child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew square-rigged ships,…

— Marilyn Hacker

“There was no fear of sandpaper earth, no sense of danger from a bare-skinned spill, for the boy was a child—a six-foot, one-inch growing…

— Tony Taylor

“He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as…

— Leo Tolstoy