#child

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. ↗

— James Wolcott

#back #children #considered #early #early age

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in. ↗

— Natalie Wood

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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#education #element #every #life #music

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#ahead #allowed #always #child #come

That great Cathedral space which was childhood. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use. ↗

— John Woolman

#assuredly #children #delight #direct #doth

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#children #dancing #i #weddings

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

#century #children #ghetto #live #middle

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#child actors #come #constant #constant flow #crew