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I've said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.
- Michelle Obama
I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
- Olivia Newton-John
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
- Lewis Carroll
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
- Lewis Carroll
How did it come to pass that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity? The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. Naturally I could go deeper into the problem than a child with normal abilities.
- Albert Einstein
As a child I received instruction in both the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.
- Albert Einstein
Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become aware, for the first time, of the whispering that had haunted all her sleeps.
- Aldous Huxley
If the way of spiritual childhood became general, who does not see how easily would be realized the reformation of human society...
- Dorothy Day
As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.
- Nicole Kidman
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
- Bishop TD Jakes