Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

George Foreman

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

Hilary Mantel

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

Meghan O'Rourke

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Nancy Mitford

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Norman Mailer

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'

Natsuki Takaya

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Ouida

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda

Ouida

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

Oliver Stone

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

Olivier Theyskens

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Penn Badgley

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

Pat Conroy

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

Prince Harry

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

Patricia Highsmith

Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.

Patrick Labyorteaux

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

Patti Smith

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

Paul Simon

We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

Panayiotis Zavos

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

Rowan Atkinson