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I fancy cartoons; don't even get me started on 'Aladdin.'
- Emily Atack
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
- Aldous Huxley
When I wasn't playing with Barbie dolls, I was always playing with different kinds of balls, and my dad said, let's try tennis.
- Sofia Kenin
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
- Tullian Tchividjian
It's funny to look back - Tessa was seven and I was nine. I remember there wasn't a lot of talking at the beginning. We were terrified to hold hands for quite a while.
- Scott Moir
When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.
- Robin Jones Gunn
From earliest childhood, an arrow of grief has been embedded in my heart. As long as it remains there, I am ironic — if it is drawn out, I will die.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I'm really happy that you're here." This is not an outright lie. No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
- Alice Hoffman
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
- St. Augustine
I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.
- Walt Disney
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
- Anonymous
Mommies are just big little girls.
- Anonymous