America Quote by Anchee Min

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An…

— Marilyn Monroe

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the…

— Marianne Williamson

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

— Molly Crabapple

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

— Ezra Miller

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

— Jennifer Lopez

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

— Meg Cabot

I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with…

— Sarah Jones

I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn't enjoy being a child very much. I felt…

— Finneas

I thought of myself as an individual ever since I was little.

— Michael Pena

“Having born as a human, one has to distinguish between, ‘what is of the Self’, and ‘what is of the non-Self’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar