#child

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster. ↗

— Kate Moss

#being #braces #child #day #elastic

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. ↗

— Jamie Murphy

#child #like #mathematics #music #nursery

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#childhood #desks #drop #fortunate #had

Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent’s past, there’s leftover booze and contraceptives. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #shame #funny

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#children #depends #grow #grow up #how

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#childbirth #could #different #effects #enveloping

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#crime #deprivation #desperation #leave #life

It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin. ↗

— Harry Melling

#children #does #fat #happy #problem

Toffee Crisp was my downfall. I once ate five at a sitting. Do you really need that third helping, Harry? My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin. ↗

— Harry Melling

#ate #children #crisp #did #does

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play. ↗

— Johnny Mercer

#child #days #laugh #like #play