Children Quotes by Patti Smith

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that…

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“The child, mystified by the commonplace, moves effortlessly into the strange..”

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Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

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“The goodwill that surrounded us was proof that the Fates were conspiring to help their enthusiastic children.”

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We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

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

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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

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If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a…

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I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the…

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Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a…

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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four…

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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four…

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Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,…

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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked…

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[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They…

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In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser…

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I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew…

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From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt…

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One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother…

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There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a…

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I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other…

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I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children…

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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…

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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

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“The mind of a child is like a kiss on the forehead — open and disinterested”

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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.

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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did…

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I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to…

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My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in…

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As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come…

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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star…

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For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should…

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Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that…

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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But…

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When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William…

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I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over…

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I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was…

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I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course,…

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