Being Quote by Maurice Sendak

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

I was no good at being a child.

— A. S. Byatt

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

— Cesare Pavese

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

— Steven Seagal

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

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

— Cornelia Parker

I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be.

— Mark Lester

I was an only child, eventually.

— Steven Wright

Because I was involved in so many other areas of life and so many productive activities, I wasn't judged for not being a mother.…

— Shabana Azmi

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have…

— Jeremy Northam

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think…

— China Mieville