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- Nov 07, 2020
Child Quotes
On childhood, creativity, and growing up.
Some quotes treat a creative project as being as demanding as raising a child; others come from adults looking back at being teased, being an only child, or noticing how plainly children can speak the truth. Childhood extends that memory.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Given
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arsenal have always been the team closest to my heart and a side I've wanted to join since I was a child.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great aspects of a Destiny's Child movie… is the empowerment of the songs and the empowerment that Destiny's Child has given to women.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very well yet. They lack automatic decoding skills, and this prevents them from being able to read accurately, much less smoothly and quickly. Decoding accuracy is the first prerequisite to fluency.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.
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- Nov 07, 2020