A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream. – Hugo Chavez
The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child. – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young… This whole idea of ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ is exactly how we’re supposed to live. – Helen Fisher
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome. – Harmony Korine
I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep – I was a very aggressive boy. – Haile Gebrselassie
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories. – Hannah Kent
Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It’s like putting all your effort into a new child that’s being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That’s when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws. – Hideo Kojima
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when you’re not feeling very well, or as a child. – Helen Oyeyemi
Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with… I used to race cars since I was a child. – Gautam Singhania
Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience. – Henry Eyring
I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child. – Graydon Carter
I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That’s probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent. – Henry Ian Cusick
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune. – Heber J. Grant
I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp. – Hannah Ware
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. – Graham Greene
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it. – Groucho Marx
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.– George Bernard ShawMan and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don’t think I will ever be anything other than that. – Hayley Atwell
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child. – Hans Rosling
Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and that had such a huge effect on me as a child, watching those films back in the ’70s. There was so much of that character that was, for me, Superman. – Gary Frank
You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you’re responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it. – Harvey Fierstein
When I had my first camera – I was a child of the ’80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface. – Harmony Korine
