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I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
David Walliams

Alone, Happy, Creativity

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley

Religion, Beautiful, Wise

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
Mencius

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
Max Muller

Love, Mother, Heart

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
Drew Barrymore

Happy, Girl, Flower

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller

Learning, Person, Words

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James A. Baldwin

Involved, Sanctity, Bombing

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Family, Destroyed

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Desmond Tutu

Education, Best, Give

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger

Love, Best, Mean

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
Susan Hampshire

Stupid, Lonely, Parents

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
Karl Lagerfeld

Attitude, Mother, Nothing

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
Victoria Beckham

Heart, Drawing, Presents

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
Paul Wellstone

Teacher, Learning, Children

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Dag Hammarskjold

Time, Christmas, Happy

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
Nora Ephron

Health, Important, Enough

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.
Alanis Morissette

Great, Anger, Bad

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Carl Sandburg

Woman, Give, Write

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner

Husband, Lives, Dog

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
Jenny McCarthy

Life, Mom, Makes

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
George W. Bush

Able, Her, Read

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
Christopher Meloni

Fun, Yourself, Ask

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
Tom Hiddleston

Girl, Learned, Dream

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker

Everything, Country, Learned

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric Hoffer

Source, Talents, Uniqueness

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Alexander Pope

Simplicity, Manners, Gentle

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope

Nature, Law, Pleased

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori

Help, Succeed, Feels

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot

Hope, Care, Realize

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy

Love, Best, Books

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