#child

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#always #children #claim #gave #had

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#born #childhood #had #happy #happy childhood

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry. ↗

— Rick James

#angry #basis #beat #bitter #child

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#does #man #never #pay #second

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#i #i think #innocence #project #really

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#away #because #brings #children #county

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#child #did #ever #hand #i

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#child #crocodiles #first #florida #jigsaw

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything. ↗

— Joan Jett

#child #could #defined #follow #i