Read quote“I did not become a socialist, but was bred one from age 6, or thereabout.”
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Read quote“Я, наверное, украл у Хабиба детство.”
Read quote“For Colombians, the bicycle has been a passion since childhood.”
Read quote“My grandfather once said, having watched me one entire afternoon, prancing and leaping and cavorting, “This child will either end up on stage or in jail.” Fortunately, I took the easy route.”
Read quote“That's why libraries are an absolute cinch for kids. You've just got to have them if you want social evolution.”
Read quote“I think nine or ten is a good age for a boy to first pick up a tennis racket.”
Read quote“Já jsem si vždycky přál spíš nedospět, zůstat klukem.”
Read quote“俺たちが本当に恵まれていたのは、教科書がなかったこと”
Read quote“ผมน่ะ มันชอบมาตั้งแต่ชั้นประถมแล้ว”
Read quote“I faced imminent death at the age of 13 during partition. Yet, I managed to survive. Thereafter, I feared nothing in life.”
Read quote“In order to read a child’s mind we need imagination.”
Read quote“집에서 '타샤'라 불리다 윤미래라는 이름을 썼을 땐 뒤에서 누가 저를 불러도 알지 못했죠.”
Read quote“I may say that it was there that I spent the happiest years of my infancy and of my early youth.”
Read quote“من غذای خود را که قدری از نان شب مانده و پنیر و یا مختصری از غذای شب گذشته بود، در مغازهی سیگارفروشی نزدیک مدرسه میخوردم.”
Read quote“From the time I was little, I knew the spotlight was my destiny.”
Read quote“We make movies for adults and the adult that exists in every child.”
Read quote“The civilization of a country is tested by the manner in which it cares for its women, its boys and girls.”
Read quote“I used to beat him in the 100m freestyle in the pool.”
Read quote“Je suis un enfant de la violence, donc un adulte de la paix.”
Read quote“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”
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