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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
Salma Hayek
Time
You
Better
Free
Ocean
Too
Kids
Neighbours
Would
Would-Be
Running
Could
Better Place
Outside
Mexico
Up
Privileged
Child
Place
Far
Grow
Grow Up
Lived
Play
Streets
Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
Salma Hayek
Life
My Life
Animals
Before
Slept
Had
Bed
Dogs
Were
Child
Four
I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
Sam Brownback
Life
Conservative
Poverty
Believe
Living
Darfur
Someone
Protect
Womb
Expand
Begins
Child
Want
Agenda
Should
Compassionate
You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.
Sam Brownback
Good
Family
You
Difficult
More
Child
Much
Raise
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Sam Childers
Little Things
Three
Seen
Building
Back
Spend
Later
Mine
Months
Mines
Out
Something
Small
Small Child
Weeks
Stepped
Putting
Doing
Five
Child
Getting
Just
Africa
Bigger
Little
Land
Helping
Things
Started
Kept
Pull
It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
Sam Harris
Time
Women
People
Mother
Energy
Down
Side
State
Syndrome
Easy
Find
Admire
See
About
Having
Still
Govern
Five
Child
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Who
Many
Bright
Alaska
Palin
Here
I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
Sam Heughan
Back
Run
Wee
Perfect
Edinburgh
Always
Up
Arthur
Child
Lived
Near
Seat
Playground
Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
Sam Kean
Universe
Lust
Despite
Considered
Would
Potent
Poetic
Mercury
Most
Child
Substance
Gold
Them
Agreed
Medieval
As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
Sam Kean
Food
Fly
Whatever
Mouth
Else
Would
No-One
Talk
Around
Balloons
Dentist
Child
Tubes
Anyway
Away
Things
Early
In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
Sam Kean
Mother
About
Both
Poignancy
Thumb
Leaking
Talk
Child
Cells
Across
Violinist
Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
Sam Kean
Mom
Mother
Matter
Long
Live
Our
Bit
Memento
Inside
Similarly
Small
Sharing
She
Him
How
Mothers
Loses
Child
Died
Us
Means
Even
Away
Her
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson
Woman
Giving
Somewhere
Every
Birth
Seconds
Must
Ten
She
Globe
Child
Stopped
Found
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
Beast
Own
Others
Weep
Misfortunes
Takes
Over
Cry
Child
Any
Children
I was - I was very - I wasn't outgoing at all as a child.
Sam Neill
Outgoing
Very
Child
When you grow up with siblings, you can be like, 'Isn't this weird? Isn't this funny? Do we agree on this, or do we disagree?' You have some point of reference, some touchstone. When you grow up an only child, everything is internalized.
Sam Richardson
Funny
You
Disagree
Everything
Some
Touchstone
Only
Only Child
Point
Weird
Like
Reference
Up
Child
Agree
Grow
Grow Up
Sibling
I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
Sam Shepard
Old
Ranch
Had
House
Wrote
California
Trailer
Child
Buried
It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
Samantha Fox
World
Touring
Fair
Child
Round
Drag
It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
Samantha Morton
Important
Energy
Masculine
Around
Child
Your
Your Child
I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
Samantha Shannon
Writing
Own
Think
Imagination
Teeth
Way
Wearing
My Own
Self-Conscious
Withdrawing
Braces
Child
Used
Started
Shy
I'm the child of immigrants, and there was always a garage filled with food, just in case, and you kept money under the mattress. You were always prepared, because you couldn't trust that you were being taken care of. So that translated into my life into a lot of opportunity hoarding.
Samin Nosrat
Life
Food
You
Trust
Money
Opportunity
Care
My Life
Immigrants
Case
Taken
Because
Always
Were
Lot
Mattress
Child
Hoarding
Just
Being
Translated
Prepared
Garage
Filled
Kept
Brooke Shields has been a child star and has grown into an incredible actress. She is very accomplished, and I look up to her. She had a mother's sense to her.
Sammi Hanratty
Mother
Sense
Incredible
Has-Been
Brooke Shields
Had
Look
She
Been
Accomplished
Up
Very
Child
Star
Grown
Actress
Her
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
Samuel E. Morison
History
Reality
Distorted
Must
Only
True
Knows
Reduced
Queer
Child
Any
Representation
Lenses
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
Samuel Freeman Miller
Constitution
Custody
States
Parent
Laws
Arise
Does
His
Child
Dependent
Them
United
United States
Treaties
I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'
Sandra Bullock
Selfish
Money
Amazing
Say
Kids
Plenty
System
Out
Run
Would
Adopt
Point
Stuff
Said
Always
Go
Child
Gets
Getting
Where
Want
Them
Really
Play
Give your child quality time. If you're going to be with him for two hours, then disconnect from absolutely everything. Look at him in the eyes - get to know your baby. Sitting there as you watch TV is not quality time to me.
Sandra Echeverria
Time
Me
You
Eyes
Quality
Baby
Everything
TV
Give
Absolutely
Absolutely Everything
Hours
Know
Look
Him
Quality Time
Disconnect
Child
Get
Sitting
Going
Then
Your
Your Child
Watch
Two
I'm lucky to have football. My father was 16 when he worked in the mines. That's practically a child, going down the mines.
Santi Cazorla
Father
Down
Mines
Football
He
Practically
Child
Going
Worked
Lucky
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