#child

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. ↗

— David Leavitt

#perfume #smells

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#child #development #duty #ever #expansion

Your children don't have to fear you to respect you. ↗

— Michael Madsen

#fear #respect #you #your

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#child #children #church #father #himself

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#baby #black #born #challenge #child

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#closest #closest thing #people #people say #play

Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest. ↗

— Mark Kirk

#amount #born #children #creditors #day

There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ↗

— Doug Larson

#few #few things #more #own #satisfying

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #entertainment #readers #reading #solitude

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#childless #desire #divorced #figured #got