- Husband
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.
- Loner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.
- Background
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
- Brim
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
- Nov 07, 2020
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020