#child

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. ↗

— Franka Potente

#annoyed #arrows #because #bedrooms #brother

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#child #human #knowledge #lose #must

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#childhood #eden #every #experienced #leave

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#children #feast #feel #grateful #head

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. ↗

— John Powell

#been #children #more #our #percent

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #clear #enumerate #equal #even

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#bloodstream #children #extinction #fought #freedom

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#different #manhood #only #our #proportioned

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#children #established #had #nothing #parents

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. ↗

— Burton Richter

#born #child #elder #fanny #i