Children Quote by Elaine Dundy Download Open image ““I felt my attention wandering off. It generally does at the phrase "mere child.”” — Elaine Dundy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children
“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.” — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this," and you might say, "Just a minute, I'm busy." Now that's no big deal-we all get busy, and kids frequently ask for attention. But over your child's entire youth, you may have an enormous number of such moments… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share
“When our minds are silent, we can feel like a kid at playtime, yet still act however we feel is best for the situation… — Noah Elkrief Copy Share Image
“That night I experienced one of those sudden, unpleasant shifts of perception that occur to parents, when you notice a difference in your child… — Dorothy Johnston Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“A considerable part of parenting is pretending moods that you do not entirely feel.” — Gin Phillips Copy Share Image
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he will grow up feeling, somewhere deep inside, that… — Jonice Webb Copy Share Image
“I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Baby toys were left at my door. Either someone’s trying to get my attention, or I have the attention span of an infant.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“I'm a real phony, one of those half-baked hot-house plants we're growing nowadays, instead of the honest-to-God two-fisted women we should be...” — Elaine Dundy Copy Share
“He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl’s account o how she… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.” — elaine dundy Copy Share Image
“I have never known anyone with less money and less visible means of getting hold of it. He had slept around everywhere, from the… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever! — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me,… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“What did I feel? Appalled. Astonished. Bewildered. I thought I was doing so well. I thought I was charming the hell out of him. I thought I had him eating out of my hand. Well: I thought I was getting away with it. I might have known. There is always a catch. But suddenly I felt very very young, like… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share
“[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
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