Normal Child Quotes

#1. Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

Pearl S. Buck

#2. I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.

W.N.P. Barbellion

#3. You - you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you."

"Does that bother you?"

"Well, it certainly makes you harder to hate.

Sabaa Tahir

#4. I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.

Holly Black

#6. From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.

Jennie Finch

#7. As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery ... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Ryan Holmes

#8. My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

Maria Sharapova

#9. As a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

Charles Bukowski

#10. I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.

Emilia Fox

#11. Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.

Robert Winston

#12. Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

Jen Kirkman

#13. I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers.

Kristen Stewart

#14. Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. Normal people don't wall their wives up in insane asylums. They don't disinherit their sons because they didn't get the child they wanted.

Leigh Bardugo

#16. Right. Because he seemed like such a normal kid. And he is a normal kid, he is just what you'd expect a baseline male child to be like if Darth Vader were his doting father.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#17. As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

Augusten Burroughs

#18. What I didn't realize was that I didn't have to be normal--I just had to be me, my father's child, carrying out God's plan.

Nick Vujicic

#19. I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

Emily Watson

#20. Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.

Peggy O'Mara

#21. I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

Elijah Wood

#22. I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that realized that life didn't have to be this terrifying and this painful all the time

Joe Peters

#23. Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly.

Darynda Jones

#24. For my child, for all our children, I want more options, more paths through the woods, wider ranges of normal, and unconditional love.

Laurie Frankel

#25. Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

Emmanuel Jal

#26. I was a wild child. It's nice, though, now to have grown up and be normal and domestic. I've become very traditional. Conservative, worldly and very wise but fun.

Kelly Carlson

#27. I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.

Emiliano Salinas

#28. I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.

Joanne Harris

#29. Nothing else seems out of the ordinary for a horrible haunted forest being inhabited by a child eating witch.

Seanan McGuire

#30. The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

Stephen D. Krashen

#31. Every day I ask my husband, 'Is it possible to over kiss your child?' I literally think I kiss him 200 times in a day. It's not normal!

Rachel Zoe

#32. As my heart begins to return to normal, I look down at -- and feel such an intense rush of love and relief it takes my breath away. "I will never let you put of my sight again," I promise --

Camilla Way

#33. Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

Maynard James Keenan

#34. What are you cooking this night, wife?" One of the crepes picked that moment to dislodge itself from the ceiling. It landed at her feet with a plop as if on cue. "Crepes." She kept a straight face and tried to look like this was the normal way to make crepes.

Shelly Thacker

#35. Negativism in two-year-olds is a normal step of development, one way the child begins to separate psychologically from his mother or father.

Gary Chapman

#36. Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

William James

#37. A common misconception among youngsters attending school is that their teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, prowling libraries and disdaining the normal youngster's propensity for play rather than study, would grow up to be a teacher anyway?

Steve Brody

#38. The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.

Peter Benchley

#39. I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal ... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging.

Sara Cox

#40. I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

Peter P. Mahoney

#41. Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all.

Teddy Wayne

#42. Smythies, you recall, considered hallucination to be a normal part of every child's psychological life.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#43. Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal "disturbed" child, not an alien.

Doris Lessing

#44. Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?

Nancy Burson