Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

Kirsten Prout

Education is the master key to greatness; without it, a child would be faced with the darkness of a future that's full of uncertainties.

Edmond Mbiaka

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

Flavor Flav

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

Fergie

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

Francis Spufford

All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.

Gary Bauer

I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.

Graydon Carter

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

Gwendoline Christie

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

Cassandra Clare

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

Claire Danes

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

Christian Louboutin

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Cesare Pavese

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

Christina Perri

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

Helen Oyeyemi

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

Hans Rosling

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

Henry Rollins

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

Itzhak Perlman

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

Irwin Redlener

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

Jules Asner

Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

J.M. Barrie