Best Youngest Child Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Trompe l'Oeil: Beauty and the Beast Retold

“Hannah, as if she understood her place in the cosmos, grew from quiet infant to watchful child: a child fond of nooks and corners, who curled up in closets, behind sofas, under dangling tablecloths, staying out of sight as well as out of mind, to ensure the terrain of the family did not change.”

Family Family Relationships Siblings Youngest Child

Book:Everything I Never Told You

Source: Everything I Never Told You

“For what is she, but a spare daughter?”

Youngest Child

Book:The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

Source: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

“Even though she was an infant, he saw her spit and vinegar, that spirit that would soon be lighting a fire under them all. His ma said he took a shine to her right away--- and that settled it. Shine.”

Shine Female Protagonist Redhead Youngest Child Given Name

Book:The Moonshine Women

Source: The Moonshine Women

“I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.”

Children Only Child Youngest Child

Author:Paul Nurse

“Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.”

Wells Children Left Deals Loneliness Well Being Left Alone Frail Youngest Child

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.”

Believe Children Two I Believe Growing Up Growing Trouble Brother Responsible Older Brother Older Sister Youngest Child

Book:The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander

Source: The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander

“I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.”

“The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.”

Ifs Giving Children Shows Rooms Study Months Empathy Capacity Bunch Climbs Pens Altruism Cushions Youngest Child

Author:Alison Gopnik

“During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.”

Needs Writing Years Firsts Children Long Two Problem School Husband Conflict My Family Two Things My Husband Drag Bumps Youngest Child

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!”

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.”

Children Used My Own Trouble Brother Wander My Brother Brothers And Sisters Radar Youngest Child

Author:Paul Giamatti

“My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.”

Trying Kind Children Running Roles Perspective Mom Let Me My Mom Tension Annoying Older Sister Rowdy Youngest Child

Author:Andy Samberg

“I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.”

People Believe Kind Children Different Play Natural Acting All Kinds Pretending Different Peoples Spoiled Make Believe Youngest Child Playing Make Believe

Author:Katherine Heigl

“My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.”

People Memories Childhood Taught Dad Protect Connections Sacred My Dad Childhood Memories Aboriginal Pests Youngest Child

Author:Steve Irwin

“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

“The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.”

Way Children Conversation Jokes Adults Youngest Child

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month.” “Such tenderness for your youngest child,” Hyacinth muttered. “It quite undoes me.”

Men Wells Children Courses Half Tears Months Fortune Tenderness Suitable Other Half Hyacinths Youngest Child

Book:It's in his kiss

Source: It's in his kiss

“I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime”

Writing Children School Chance Novel Youngest Child

Author:Anne McCaffrey

“A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.”

Men Kind Children Age Fall House Violence Childhood Effects Promise Increase Trade Old Age Life Span Youngest Child

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!”

Children Lasts Failing Blood Land Jew Elders Youngest Child

Author:Yasser Arafat

“I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.”

Children Kids Guy Stuff Computer Very Good Driven Checks Farms Ducks Toys Email Hunts Spoiled Only Child Mario New Toys Youngest Child

Author:Garrett Hedlund