"I was a very, very old child. Sometimes……" — Marianne Wiggins
"I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old."
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Marianne Wiggins
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16 Quotes by Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wiggins has 16 quotes on this site.
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There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting…
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Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in…
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I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.
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What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that…
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Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and…
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I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and…
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I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
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I will never turn to God.
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I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a…
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I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I…
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Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations…
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Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the…
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More Adult Quotes
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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